Posted by Dan Lashof in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
I know the NBA finals are still underway, but a football analogy seems much more apt.Legislation to cap and reduce global warming pollution didn’t get across the goal line after obstructionist tactics blocked serious consideration of the Climate Security Act,...
Posted by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
Jim Hansen, NASA’s top climate scientist, put global warming on the policy agenda with his 1988 Congressional testimony that he was 99% confident that a long term global warming trend was underway and that heat-trapping gases were probably to blame....
Posted by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
We asked for your help coming up with seven words to save the planet and you responded: More than 100 entries here and 89 over at Grist, which picked up on the contest. (Some of these are duplicates and I...
Posted by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
According to this week's New York Times Bestseller List, the number-one hardcover fiction book in the land this week is Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food, which features a memorably terse distillation of its core message: Eat food. Not too...
Posted by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
At least Charles Gibson asked a question about global warming at Saturday night's presidential candidate debate in New Hampshire, which is more than you can say for many of his colleagues in the political press corps according to the League...
Posted by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
No, this is not the title of a WWE title bout (or even a WWF fact sheet). Its a question I was asked by someone wanting to know which would make a bigger difference in lowering his personal carbon footprint....
Posted by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
I can't remember a week that heralded so much progress.On Monday, Kevin Rudd, Australia's new prime minister ratified the Kyoto protocol, leaving the United States as the only industrial power outside the agreement.Monday night Peter Petrelli destroyed the Shanti virus,...
Posted by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
Gary Braasch has a nice photo essay up on Grist with highlights from his new book, Earth Under Fire. I have been privileged to work with Gary for several years. He is a talented photographer and journalist. NRDC sponsored his...
Posted by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
Jim Inhofe is feeling the heat. With growing bipartisan support for the Lieberman-Warner America’s Climate Security Act, the Oklahoma Senator is more isolated than ever. At a hearing in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Wednesday Montana Democrat...
Posted by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
Representative John Dingell posted his carbon tax proposal today and is asking for public comment. He was interviewed about it by Newsweek. In a previous post I talked about why I think a discussion of carbon taxes is a distraction...
Posted by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
Someone has asked about carbon taxes at every public forum on global warming policy that I have participated in recently. This idea has been around for a long time, but has been largely dormant in policy circles since 1993, after...
Posted by Dan Lashof in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
Late Friday afternoon the US Geological Survey (USGS) released a series of reports on the fate of polar bears in a warming world which Andrew Wetzler described in his post yesterday. The timing of the release may have been designed...
Posted by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
One of the most dramatic and visual manifestations of global warming is the declining expanse of arctic sea ice. The data coming out of the Arctic now are shocking even to those of us who read bad news about global...
Posted by Dan Lashof in Nuclear Weapons, Waste and Energy , Solving Global Warming
There is nothing I find more annoying than bad reasoning by self-appointed “heretics.”Unfortunately this tactic often gets a lot of attention. Witness Jesse Ausubel’s “Renewable and nuclear heresies,” which claims that renewable energy sources are not green, while nuclear power...
Posted by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
The debate on global warming in Washington has turned decisively from "Is it a problem?" to "What are we going to do about it and how much is it going to cost?"The EPA weighed into that debate today with an...
