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Finally, Good News on Climate! US Carbon Emissions Drop

Patrick McCully | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Dirty Coal, Peak Carbon, Obama Stimulus Plan, Economic Stimulus Package, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Offsets, Peak Oil, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Climate Change, Natural Gas, International Rivers, Global Warming, Green News
Patrick McCully

The drop in emissions means that we are already more than halfway to the goal of the cap-and-trade bill passed by the House of Representatives of a 17% cut from 2005 to 2020.

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Nuclear Renaissance? Not in the U.S.A.

Larry Coben | Posted 11.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Carbon, Energy, Nuclear Power, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Nuclear, Green Energy, Energy Policy, Barack Obama Energy Policy, Barack Obama, Green News
Larry Coben

There is no nuclear renaissance -- at most a faint glimmer of hope for the end of a long nuclear dark age. Initial drafts of climate change and energy legislation do little to promote nuclear development.

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In Support of 350, It's Myth Bustin' Time: "Carbon Dioxide is Just a Trace Gas, Big Deal"

Jeff Goldstein | Posted 10.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Climate, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Environment, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Reducing Carbon Emissions, Blood Alcohol Level, Climate Change, Global Warming Deniers, Climate Crisis, Global Warming, Trace Gas, Green News
Jeff Goldstein

For all those that do not want to pay homage to CO2, I say -- stop eating. Or at least stop throwing around the expression "trace gas" so loosely.

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China Accuses U.S. Of Sabotaging Kyoto

guardian.co.uk | John Vidal, Environment Editor in Bangkok | Posted 10.05.2009 | World

Read More: Carbon Emissions, US Kyoto, Careers, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Carbon-Dioxide-Emissions, China Kyoto, Kyoto, Green Energy, Carbon Footprint, China Pollution, 2012 Kyoto Expiration, Kyoto Protocol, China, Kyoto Agreement, Kyoto Treaty, World News

The US and other developed countries are attempting to "fundamentally sabotage" the Kyoto protocol and all-important international negotiations over i...

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Unblock the Climate Debate: New Book is Required Reading for Climate Change Summit Leaders

Jeff Biggers | Posted 09.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Carbon Emissions, Global Warming, Age of Stupid, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, President Barak Obama, Summit on Climate Change, United Nations, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Craven's book shatters the back-and-forth raillery and unending road blocks over the climate change debate with a breakthrough rationale for making decisions.

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George Will Take Note: 1910 ≠ 2050

Bill Chameides | Posted 09.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Technology, George Will, Climate Change, Global Warming, Green News
Bill Chameides

Is George Will on the right side of history? Well, definitely on the right, but as for the history part? Not so much.

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Green News Report - August 11, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 09.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Chevy Volt, Glaciers, Biofuels, Epa, Arctic Ice Melt, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Green News Report, Arizona, Toxic Waste Dumping, Arctic, Drought, National Security, Hybrid Cars, Water, Dry Cleaners, Sarah Palin, Green News, Gas Mileage, Climate Change, Alaska, Solar Power, Global Warming, Solar Thermal Power, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

Is climate change a threat to national security?

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Green News Report - July 23, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 08.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Lithium-Ion Battery, India, Clean Coal, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Green News Report, Smart LEDs, E. Coli, Tourism, Biomass, Fish, Missouri, Green News, Climate Change, Hillary Clinton, Sustainable Seafood, Off-Shore Oil Drilling, California Budget Crisis, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Honey, I shrunk the fish!; Off-shore drilling vs. California's budget; "Clean coal" vs. reality; Tourism vs. Safety in Misso...

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Understanding Why Climate Change is Human-Induced: A Day in the Life of the Earth

Jeff Goldstein | Posted 08.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Carbon Dioxide, Climate Change, Geologic Time, Global Temperature, Global Warming, Green News
Jeff Goldstein

Every Geologic Day is absolutely inconsequential relative to Earth's lifetime. After all, Earth has 27,394 of them.

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India To Reject Curbing CO2 Emissions

e360.yale.edu | Posted 08.02.2009 | Green

Read More: India, India Pollution, Carbon Emissions, G8, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Carbon Dioxide, Pollution, c02, Green News

India will not accept limits on its greenhouse gas emissions at climate talks later this year and instead will focus on economic growth and lifting it...

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How Will This Weekend's Fireworks Affect You?

Mother Nature Network | Posted 08.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Carbon Dioxide, July 4, Fourth of July, Pollution, Air Pollution, Fireworks, Fourth-of-July-Celebration, Toxins, Green News

Fourth of July fireworks unleash a shower of toxins into the soil and water, and scientists are only beginning to figure out what that means for human...

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Tom Friedman: Climate Bill Is The First Step Towards Change

nytimes.com | THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN | Posted 08.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Climate Change, Farmers, President Obama, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Obama Climate Change, Democrats, Coal, Carbom Emissions, Global Warming, Climate Bill, Republicans, Green News

Rejecting this bill would have been read in the world as America voting against the reality and urgency of climate change and would have undermined cl...

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Obama Administration Proposes Tougher Clean Air Standards

AP | H. JOSEF HEBERT | Posted 08.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa. Clean Air, Carbon Emissions, Car Pollution, Climate Change, President Obama, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Environment, Carbon Dioxide, Pollution, Global Warming, Green News

WASHINGTON — (AP) _ The Obama administration is proposing to strengthen a key air pollution health standard. The Environmental Protection Agenc...

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The Simple Arithmetic of Global Warming Supports the Economics of a Climate Change Bill

David Fiderer | Posted 07.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Carbon Emissions, Clean Coal, Greenhouse Gases, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Natural Gas, Climate Crisis, Coal, Global Warming, China, Climate Bill, Green News
David Fiderer

One of the great ironies of our age is that skepticism of global warming is treated with greater respect than, say, Holocaust denial.

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Climate Legislation: Countdown to the House Showdown

Bill Chameides | Posted 07.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Politics, Cap and Trade, Economics, Climate Change, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, Policy, Legislation, Global Warming, American Clean Energy and Security Act, Green News
Bill Chameides

wo recent polls show that a large majority of Americans want the United States to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Today the U.S. House of Representatives just might deliver.

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Cap and Trade Part 5: What's With the Add-Ons?

Bill Chameides | Posted 07.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Cap and Trade, Economics, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Washington Post, Policy, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, Legislation, Green News
Bill Chameides

The Waxman-Markey climate bill is attracting a lot of criticism aimed at the non-cap-and-trade add-ons, which begs the question: are they really necessary?

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Cap and Trade Part 4: Forests, Farms, and Offsets

Bill Chameides | Posted 07.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Carbon, Offsets, Cap and Trade, Economics, Climate, Climate Change, Agriculture, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Ecosystems, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Forests, Global Warming, Green News
Bill Chameides

Many people have a hard time accepting that one can emit CO2 from a power plant in Ohio and offset those emissions by capturing methane on a North Carolina hog farm.

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U.S. Climate Bill Part of Solution but Not the Whole Solution

Bill Chameides | Posted 07.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Cap and Trade, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, China, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, Temperatures, Global Warming, Climate Change, Climate Disruption, Green News
Bill Chameides

Co-written by Bill Chameides and Prasad KasibhatlaThe climate deniers have a new argument: don't pass climate legislation because it doesn't cut emiss...

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Cap and Trade Part 2: Walking the International Tightrope

Bill Chameides | Posted 07.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Thomas Friedman, Cap and Trade, Global Economy, Economics, Economy, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, United States, Policy, China, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, Legislation, Politics, U.S. Congress, Climate Change, Paul Krugman, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Global Warming, Green News
Bill Chameides

Any international climate treaty that omits an eventual cap on China's emissions will be a treaty that fails to prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference on the climate.

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Cap and Trade Part 1: It's About the Cap, Stupid

Bill Chameides | Posted 07.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Politics, Cap and Trade, Global Economy, Climate, Climate Change, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Policy, Business, Legislation, Global Warming, Green News
Bill Chameides

Where the climate is concerned, don't be fooled: it's ultimately about the "cap" not the "and trade" part.

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Does Sen. Barrasso of Wyoming Really Want Science to Guide Him?

Todd Wilkinson | Posted 06.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Heritage Foundation, Barrasso, John Barrasso, Senator Barrasso, Carbon Emissions, Epa, Green News
Todd Wilkinson

Science should indeed be the foundation of public policy. To say so, but then to act otherwise, is political hypocrisy at its worst.

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Staring Down the Double-Barrel Climate Shotgun

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Research, Climate Change, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Wetlands, Science, Permafrost, Oceans, Methane, Global Warming, Climate Disruption, Green News
Bill Chameides

Dr. Bill Chameides is the dean of Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He blogs regularly at th...

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Obama's First 100 Days of Coal: A Few Honest Words, Please

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Massey Energy, Dirty Coal, Solar, Green Jobs, TVA Coal Ash Pond Disaster, Renewable Energy, Wind, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Offshore Wind, Coal, Barack Obama, Department of the Interior, Epa, Biomass, Climate Change, Nancy Pelosi, James Hansen, Harry Reid, Mountaintop Removal, Ken Salazar, Lisa Jackson, Green Energy, Capitol Power Plant, Global Warming, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Let's hope the next 100 days bring us a real green jobs package for the coalfields.

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Cash for Clunkers, Here and There

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Automakers, Economics, Economy, Cash for Clunkers, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Cars, Dianne Feinstein, Fuel Economy, Automobile, Transportation, Green News
Bill Chameides

A arrives in your driveway with several thousand tons of CO2 emissions embedded in it. So you'd better be sure that there is a big t differential between the mileage of your old car and new one.

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