Climate Change


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The Oval Office Address: Will The President Go For A "Price On Carbon"?

By Bill Scher
June 15, 2010

It is rare for a President to deliver an Oval Office address on a subject that is not directly about war. When a President does so, he signals to the nation that the problem at hand is not only of the utmost importance, but requires the nation to come together to fix it. more »

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Yes, Nuclear

By Dave Johnson
February 18, 2010

I believe that global warming is the most serious threat humanity faces. So we need to use every possible technology we can to replace energy sources that put greenhouse gases into the air. This includes nuclear energy. more »

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Bitter Cold, Tough Negotiations Over Transparency

By Bob Baugh
December 17, 2009

Thursday morning found Copenhagen bitterly cold with a cutting wind and covered in snow …much like the negotiations and the feelings of civil society. The Bella Center is on lockdown mode with heads of state and elected governmental leaders arriving. Civil society (unions and other non-governmental organizations) representation has been cut to 300 out of the more than 10,000 in town. more »

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Why Americans Really Need To Pay Attention To Copenhagen

By Rinku Sen
From alternet.org
December 16th, 2009

alternet.org — Green jobs could save our economy. Yet it would be all too easy to build a green economy as unfair as the industrial age has been. In fact, that has already begun.

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Climate talks, forest agreement in little danger of 'creating a better world for nothing'*

By Natasha Chart
December 16, 2009

Stall, confusion and indecision reign in the UNFCC COP15 summit in Copenhagen according to negotiators for both developed and developing nations, with the possible exception of the REDD+ agreements, which are intended to reimburse poorer countries for preserving existing forests. more »

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G77 Suspend COP15 Talks: "These Negotiations Are A Joke."

By Natasha Chart
December 14, 2009

Members of the African civil society delegations held a protest in the main hall of the COP15 summit today to support their negotiators' decision to hold up the climate summit talks, temporarily suspending the conference, over the sidelining of the Kyoto Protocol discussions, that were proceeding in parallel to the Long-Term Coope more »

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Message To Congress, Copenhagen: America is Cutting Carbon, One Way Or Another

By Bill Scher
December 7, 2009

The Environmental Protection Agency formally declared that greenhouse gases are a pollutant that it can regulate under the existing Clean Air Act. And the timing of the announcement was no accident. more »

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Is China Still A Developing Nation?

By Natasha Chart
December 5, 2009

This past week, the UN suspended funding for several Chinese wind farms, ruling the China had been gaming the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) subsidies paid by developed countries to developing countries for clean technology projects they would not have otherwise not have built. more »

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A Backdrop For Copenhagen

By Natasha Chart
December 5, 2009

Jonathan Hiskes at Grist has written up a Copenhagen 101 primer for anyone who's just tuning in to the latest round of world climate talks, so I don't have to. Which is great, because there were three main points I wanted to go over. more »

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How The Climate Change Bill Can Help Save 4 Million Jobs

By Isaiah J. Poole
October 2, 2009

Taken out of context, this argument sounds almost like a right-wing or corporatist knock against the climate change bill that's pending in the Senate: The bill that was introduced this week by Sens. more »

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