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The transit surge is working
By Jon RynnPaul Krugman ponders the reason that conservatives are so enamored of the idea that speculators are driving up the price of oil: The odds are that we're looking at a future in which energy conservation becomes increasingly important, in which many people may even -- gasp -- take public... Read more...
Published 2 hours ago
Blustery irony
By Joseph RommConservative presidential candidate Sen. John McCain chose a clever but ultimately hypocritical location for his big climate speech. I hope the media aren't fooled by his ironic choice of wind turbine company Vestas as the backdrop, but I have little doubt they will run enticing... Read more...
Published 3 hours ago
Fuzzy math
By Andrew DesslerOne of the consistent claims made by those opposed to policies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions is that the cost will be prohibitive. I have always been somewhat suspicious of this claim, however. When I started graduate school in 1988, the Montreal Protocol had just been... Read more...
Published 4 hours ago
The carbon lobby is big enough already
By Gar LipowI've said before that one problem with greenhouse-gas emissions trading (as opposed to a carbon price) is that it creates a whole new lobby with incentives to build the emissions market at the expense of actual emissions reductions. Speaking at the Carbon Expo trade fair in... Read more...
Published 5 hours ago
Science blogger: Hope is not a plan
By JMGNice big-picture essay on carbon capture and sequestration, the current magic pony being dangled before our eyes to distract us from taking meaningful action on the enemy of the human race:Capturing and storing carbon dioxide is a solution the anti-global warming contingent (read, political... Read more...
Published 5 hours ago
McCain speech reactions
By Kate SheppardJohn McCain unveiled his plans to address global warming in a speech Monday afternoon in Portland, Ore. The candidate called climate change a "test of foresight, of political courage, and of the unselfish concern that one generation owes to the next," and called for a... Read more...
Published 6 hours ago
Speech, speech
By GristHere's text of the climate speech GOP presidential candidate John McCain gave today in Portland, Ore., his most major address on the issue to date. ----- Thank you all very much. I appreciate the hospitality of Vestas Wind Technology. Today is a kind of test run for the company.... Read more...
Published 7 hours ago
McCain's targets
By David RobertsHere is the schedule of targets John McCain has proposed for his cap-and-trade program: 2012: Return emissions to 2005 levels (18 percent above 1990 levels) 2020: Return emissions to 1990 levels (15 percent below 2005 levels) 2030: 22 percent below 1990 levels (34 percent... Read more...
Published 7 hours ago
'There's a better way'
By Kate SheppardJohn McCain released a new television advertisement today to accompany his big climate policy speech in Portland, Ore., this afternoon. Here's the ad: The ad illustrates McCain's attempts to appeal to independents; climate change is a key area where he believes he can make... Read more...
Published 9 hours ago
That infrastructure thing
By Ryan AventSpeaking of our crumbling public facilities, CBO Director Peter Orszag testified in Congress on Friday and detailed the country's infrastructure needs. They are dire, in some cases. He notes in a related blog post (yes, the CBO director has a blog): Although capital spending on... Read more...
Published 10 hours ago
McCain's climate plan
By David RobertsOn Monday, John McCain will deliver a speech on climate change from Portland, Oregon. In it he will lay out the framework for climate policy under a McCain administration. After a primary spent shoring up his credentials among the Republican base, this is the beginning of his... Read more...
Published 20 hours ago
What should Obama do in West Virginia and Kentucky?
By David RobertsThough the nation's pundits have decided that the primary race is over, someone failed to get Clinton the memo -- she is determined to stay in to the bitter end. The next primaries are in West Virginia and Kentucky, states where the number of poor whites is high and consequently... Read more...
Published 1 day ago
