Posted by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
A group of prominent ecologists and climate scientists have an important article coming out in tomorrow's issue of Science, in which they call for "fixing a critical climate accounting error." The error is ignoring a significant source of global warming pollution...continued→
Posted by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
Senators returned from their August recess with lots of ideas about how they would like to change the comprehensive clean energy and climate protection bill the House passed in June. This is a normal, and in many respects, healthy part...continued→
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...continued→
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...continued→
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...continued→
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...continued→
