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Cows Let Go a Sigh of Relief: Congress acted on climate this week. And it's certainly a move to chew over. by erica — last modified Oct 29, 2009 01:53 PM — filed under: cap and trade, U.S. Congress, climate, animals, greenhouse gas emissions, farmers, climate change, enteric fermentation, global warming, farms, Environmental Protection Agency, ranching, methane — Relevance: 1%
Deforestation Role Demoted: How well can we slow the growth of atmospheric carbon dioxide by slowing deforestation? by erica — last modified Nov 13, 2009 08:31 AM — filed under: greenhouse gas emissions, climate change, Reductions in Emissions from Deforestation an Forest Degradation, global warming, deforestation, Waxman-Markey climate bill, Kyoto Protocol, peatlands, rain forest — Relevance: 1%
Building Hope One House at a Time: Nancy Murray has taken recycling to a whole new level — she recycles houses. by erica — last modified Nov 20, 2009 03:27 PM — filed under: Nancy Murray, buildings, greenhouse gas emissions, business, climate change, housing, recycling, global warming, Builders of Hope, sustainability, homelessness, waste — Relevance: 1%
The Waxing Sun and Warming Climate: You don’t have to be a climate scientist to know that the Sun is the main driver of climate. by erica — last modified Oct 05, 2009 12:46 PM — filed under: greenhouse gas emissions, solar, Sun, solar cycle, greenhouse gases, global warming, radiative forcing, Pulse of the Planet, climate change, sunspots — Relevance: 1%
Converging on a Climate Agreement: With Copenhagen less than two months away, is there a formula for reconciling the positions of developed and developing countries? by erica — last modified Oct 26, 2009 03:39 PM — filed under: UNFCCC, climate, greenhouse gas emissions, climate change, global warming, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, global economy, Kyoto Protocol, politics, policy, international, carbon dioxide emissions — Relevance: 1%
Where Have All the Forests Gone - Bioenergy’s Legacy?: Bioenergy’s free ride in Kyoto and national climate legislation is a recipe for disaster. by erica — last modified Oct 23, 2009 10:48 AM — filed under: land-use changes, fossil fuels, greenhouse gas emissions, climate change, legislation, global warming, Kerry-Boxer climate bill, Waxman-Markey climate bill, bioenergy, Tim Searchinger, Kyoto Protocol, science, policy, politics, carbon dioxide emissions — Relevance: 1%
A Global Diet on Livestock Emissions: You’ve heard about REDD, the program to "reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation." Why not RECC, an effort to Reduce Emissions from Cows and Cattle? by erica — last modified Nov 10, 2009 02:11 PM — filed under: Reductions in Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, fossil fuels, animals, waste, climate change, nitrogen oxides, forests, meat, deforestation, REDD, cows, greenhouse gas emissions, carbon dioxide emissions, methane — Relevance: 1%
Changing Climate Change Legislation: A new bipartisan bill was proposed on Monday. Is it real or a pretender? by erica — last modified Nov 17, 2009 02:27 PM — filed under: cap and trade, U.S. Congress, Lamar Alexander, greenhouse gas emissions, climate change, energy, economics, legislation, green investments, global warming, Kerry-Boxer climate bill, Waxman-Markey climate bill, Jim Webb, nuclear, policy, politics, carbon dioxide emissions, United States, Jimmy Carter — Relevance: 1%
Sympathy for the Oil Industry?: The poor oil industry. After years of record profits, things have soured with the collapse of oil and gas prices. And now I read of an Obama “bias” against the ... by erica — last modified Jun 18, 2009 09:47 AM — filed under: oil shale, oil, greenhouse gas emissions, natural gas, T. Boone Pickens, climate change, energy, oil reserves, global warming, oil drilling, Robert Samuelson, Washington Post, oil resources, pollution, global economy, economy — Relevance: 1%
Cap and Trade Part 4: Forests, Farms, and Offsets: <p>What do you do if something emits greenhouse gases but is not <a class="external-link" href="http://nicholas.duke.edu/thegreengrok/capandtrade3">under the ... by erica — last modified Aug 27, 2009 09:51 AM — filed under: cap and trade, climate, greenhouse gas emissions, offsets, climate change, economics, forests, global warming, ecosystems, carbon, carbon dioxide emissions, agriculture — Relevance: 1%
WSJ Goes Green, Sorta: <p>Check out the <a class="external-link" href="http://online.wsj.com/public/page/geoengineering-techniques-environment-061509.html">Journal Report</a> in ... by erica — last modified Jul 09, 2009 09:15 AM — filed under: greenhouse gas emissions, climate change, global warming, Wall Street Journal, carbon dioxide emissions — Relevance: 1%
Congress on Climate: A Zig, A Zag, and Then a Zig, Sort Of: It’s been a busy week in Congress for climate legislation. But signals have been mixed. by erica — last modified Apr 09, 2009 09:57 AM — filed under: U.S. Congress, Henry Waxman, John Thune, greenhouse gas emissions, climate change, Ed Markey, legislation, global warming, USCAP, policy, politics, Barbara Boxer — Relevance: 1%
Corn Ethanol or Conservation? What Do You Think?: U.S. corn ethanol production has been on the rise. That’s good for our country’s carbon footprint, right? A new study suggests not. by erica — last modified Mar 31, 2009 01:38 PM — filed under: greenhouse gas emissions, Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE), corn, corn ethanol, biofuels, policy, Conservation Reserve Program, Farm Bill — Relevance: 1%
Non-Climate Scientist 'Climate Scientist' Sets the Record Straight: Have you noticed that a new kind of scientific expert has been born? It is the “non-climate scientist” climate scientist, better known in the trade as the ... by erica — last modified Aug 31, 2009 02:56 PM — filed under: greenhouse gas emissions, feedback, climate change, Harrison Schmitt, William Happer, greenhouse gases, global warming, climate skeptics — Relevance: 1%
Climate Change Legislation: House Democrats Come Together: The news from House Democrats and the White House is that a deal has been cut on the Waxman-Markey climate bill. Will the changes be enough to avoid dangerous ... by erica — last modified May 14, 2009 12:21 PM — filed under: Prasad Kasibhatla, greenhouse gas emissions, climate change, legislation, global warming, global economy, policy, carbon dioxide emissions — Relevance: 1%
Cap and Trade Part 5: What’s With the Add-Ons?: If Waxman-Markey has a cap and trade, why does it need all the other stuff like fuel-economy standards for cars, renewable electricity standards, and building ... by erica — last modified Jul 10, 2009 10:08 AM — filed under: cap and trade, greenhouse gas emissions, economics, legislation, Waxman-Markey climate bill, Washington Post, policy, carbon dioxide emissions — Relevance: 1%
Climate Science Flurry: Cooling vs. Warming et al. Hot Items: This past week has been chock-full of new stuff on climate change. Let’s take a gander at a few. by erica — last modified May 05, 2009 03:47 PM — filed under: cap and trade, climate, greenhouse gas emissions, legislation, climate change, greenhouse gases, Jim Hansen, climate disruption, policy, research — Relevance: 1%
Cap and Trade Part 1: It’s About the Cap, Stupid: Where the climate is concerned, don’t be fooled: it’s ultimately about the “cap” not the “and trade” part. by erica — last modified Jul 10, 2009 10:18 AM — filed under: cap and trade, climate, greenhouse gas emissions, business, climate change, legislation, global warming, global economy, policy, politics, carbon dioxide emissions — Relevance: 1%
A Climate Fix? Not Too Cold, Not Too Hot, Just Right: While some people have a hard time accepting the fact that humans are disrupting the climate, others conclude that not only are we changing the climate today, ... by erica — last modified Mar 16, 2009 11:56 AM — filed under: climate, fossil fuels, greenhouse gas emissions, climate change, industry, Industrial Revolution, greenhouse gases, global warming, ice age, carbon dioxide emissions, agriculture, Ruddiman's Hypothesis, methane — Relevance: 1%
Companies Calling for Carbon Caps: And Then There Were 26: Amid a growing debate between a carbon tax and cap and trade and reports of congressional rifts between so-called brown states and green states, one unlikely ... by erica — last modified Mar 16, 2009 12:10 PM — filed under: cap and trade, U.S. Congress, greenhouse gas emissions, business, USCAP, carbon tax, legislation, global warming, United States Climate Action Partnership, climate change, corporations, Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act — Relevance: 1%
Statistical Grok: A Tale of Two Cities: New York Vs. Hong Kong: With Dr. Bill Chameides in Hong Kong, the <a href="http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/thegreengrok/grokteam">Green Grok team</a> takes a quick look at how New York ... by wendy — last modified Aug 31, 2009 02:22 PM — filed under: air quality, air pollution, Statistically Speaking, statistically speaking, New York, greenhouse gas emissions, fossil fuels, Hong Kong — Relevance: 1%
Reflecting on the Night Side of the Moon: Could global warming be caused by a change in the Earth’s reflectivity? In other words, is the Earth absorbing more sunlight? Believe it or not, scientists ... by erica — last modified Mar 16, 2009 11:56 AM — filed under: greenhouse gas emissions, climate change, Geophysical Research Letters, global warming, moon, science, research, albedo — Relevance: 1%
'Missing Sink' Finder Goes Missing Near the Antarctic: Climate scientists were looking forward with anticipation to yesterday’s NASA launch of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory – it was going to help resolve one of ... by erica — last modified Mar 16, 2009 11:53 AM — filed under: climate, greenhouse gas emissions, climate change, greenhouse gases, global warming, NASA, Orbiting Carbon Observatory, missing sink — Relevance: 1%
Pulse of the Planet: Good News From Africa - Tropical Forests Inhale: A heretofore unrecognized ally has emerged In the global warming fight: tropical forests. by erica — last modified Mar 16, 2009 11:54 AM — filed under: greenhouse gases, climate, greenhouse gas emissions, climate change, Pulse of the Planet, forests, global warming, missing sink — Relevance: 1%
Upstream, Downstream, or Midstream – Where to Place the Cap?: Implementing a cap-and-trade system to rein in greenhouse gas pollution will be complicated. Where the cap is “placed” will go a long way to determining how ... by erica — last modified Mar 16, 2009 11:50 AM — filed under: cap and trade, greenhouse gas emissions, downstream, climate change, global warming, upstream, policy, carbon dioxide emissions, economy — Relevance: 1%
Obama On Tar Sands - Or Should I Say Oil Sands: Yesterday President Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Harper talked about Canadian tar sands. They spoke of them euphemistically, calling them “oil sands.” ... by erica — last modified Mar 16, 2009 11:55 AM — filed under: Canada, oil shale, oil, greenhouse gas emissions, climate change, global warming, tar sands, global economy, Barack Obama, Stephen Harper, Carol Browner, pollution — Relevance: 1%
To Geo-engineer or Not to Geo-engineer: Imagine tinkering with the climate system to cancel out global warming — the stuff of mad scientists or global saviors? by erica — last modified Jun 24, 2009 02:57 PM — filed under: fossil fuels, greenhouse gas emissions, geo-engineering, climate change, oceans, phytoplankton, global warming, ocean acidification, science, carbon dioxide emissions — Relevance: 1%
Cash for Clunkers Bill Could Be a Clunker: Rahm Emanuel said: “You never want to waste a serious crisis.” In other words, use the momentum of addressing one crisis to advance other important policy ... by erica — last modified Apr 23, 2009 04:38 PM — filed under: fuel economy, U.S. Congress, greenhouse gas emissions, Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE), automobile, Dianne Feinstein, cars, transportation, Betty Sutton, Cash for Clunkers — Relevance: 1%
Cash-for-Clunkers Agreement: Still Not Ready for Prime Time: Congress has been kicking around the idea of paying people to scrap their old cars and buy new, more fuel-efficient ones. On May 5, Democratic lawmakers and ... by erica — last modified May 08, 2009 05:35 PM — filed under: U.S. Congress, greenhouse gas emissions, air pollution, climate change, legislation, global warming, cars, transportation, carbon dioxide emissions, Cash for Clunkers — Relevance: 1%
WSJ Climate Naysayer Has New Culprit: Big Business: News flash from the op-ed pages of the <em>Wall Street Journal</em>: we must stop climate change legislation. Why? Because big business wants to make money. by erica — last modified May 28, 2009 09:00 AM — filed under: cap and trade, greenhouse gas emissions, Bjorn Lomborg, business, climate change, carbon tax, economics, global warming, global economy, Wall Street Journal, acid rain program, economy — Relevance: 1%

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