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Paul Chesser, Climate Strategies Watch
USA Today reports today that China has become the world's top industrial source of carbon dioxide. But you'd think the newspaper had dragged over their crime reporter to do the write-up, considering the headline: "China Now No. 1 CO2 Offender." More:
China has overtaken the USA to become the world's No. 1 industrial source of carbon dioxide, the most important global-warming pollutant, according to a scientific study to be published today….
Unless China sharply cuts its emissions, "the situation is pretty bleak," says Richard Carson of the University of California, co-author of a study in today's Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. "There's a lot less time to do something than people previously thought."
Clearly this perpetrator needs to be found, read his rights, and then have the book thrown at him. He's become addicted.
What to do about oil? First it went from $60 to $80 a barrel, then from $80 to $100 and now to $120. Perhaps we can persuade OPEC to raise production, as some senators suggest; but this seems unlikely. The truth is that we're almost powerless to influence today's prices. We are because we didn't take sensible actions 10 or 20 years ago. If we persist, we will be even worse off in a decade or two. The first thing to do: Start drilling.
Forcing German industry and energy companies to buy permits for their greenhouse gas emissions from 2013 at auction will drive up energy prices and burden power customers, energy users' group VIK said on Tuesday.
Paul Chesser, Climate Strategies Watch
I'm a bit tardy with this, but the latest critique of state climate change commission recommendations from the Beacon Hill Institute came out last week, this one for Montana. Of course, since every state commission is producing nearly the same 50 or so ideas thanks to the predictable Center for Climate Strategies, it's gotten to the point where BHI can do these things almost in their sleep:
For policy makers, there is no worthwhile guidance in the MCCAP report. Its cost-savings estimates cannot be believed. Moreover, it fails to quantify the monetary benefits of reduced carbon emissions. As a result, policy makers are left with no basis on which to judge the merits of the MCCAP recommendations on how to mitigate the emissions of greenhouse gases.
Repetition makes work so much easier, doesn't it?
Opec’s president on Monday warned oil prices could hit $200 a barrel and there would be little the cartel could do to help.
Russia will not accept binding caps on its greenhouse gas emissions under a new climate regime, currently being negotiated to succeed the Kyoto Protocol after 2012, top officials said on Monday.
They don't have enough to eat. Five people are dead in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, after a week of food riots. Unions in Burkina Faso have called a general strike to protest the high cost of grain.
Last week, Time magazine featured on its cover the iconic photograph of the U.S. Marine Corps raising the flag on Iwo Jima. But with one difference: The flag has been replaced by a tree.
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