Apologies, but I can`t resist: I saw a news item earlier today - "Copenhagen climate summit borrows Dylan's voice" - that indicates that the COP 15 organizers (the 15th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, to which Pres. George H.W. Bush & Congress...
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TokyoTom
on Sat, Dec 5 2009
Filed under: carbon pricing, James Hansen, Coal, Exxon, climate change, Bradley, Tillerson, Murphy, Dylan
Senate Dems, who lack sufficient votes on their own to approve a cap-and-trade bill over a possible Republican fillibuster, have sought help from sympathetic Republicans, who have apparently used this leverage to broaden the bill and to extract key concessions on various issues; such concessions are...
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TokyoTom
on Mon, Oct 12 2009
Filed under: carbon pricing, pielke jr., Coal, Joe Romm, carbon capture, climate change, nuclear power, Lindsey Graham, John Kerry
"If you cannot measure it; You cannot improve it." -- Lord Kelvin I noted in February (" Empowering power consumers: Google beta tests software to give consumers real-time info ") that Google , whose climate change-related efforts I've blogged about previously , has been beta...
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TokyoTom
on Fri, Oct 9 2009
Filed under: Coal, power, Google, climate change, chamber of commerce, Milloy, utilities
The intransigence of a core of coal interests, in the face of a rebellion by firms that support legislative action on climate change, is threatening the status of the US Chamber of Commerce as the premier business council in the US, as now Apple Computer has quit the US Chamber of Commerce . Apple`s...
The following is an email message that I sent to Scott Horton , host of Antiwar Radio , regarding his September 18 interview with Bob Murphy . The exchange regarding Bob`s thoughts on the cap and trade bill monstrosity appears at 24:14 to 29:47. (Minor edits and link added.) Scott, I listened with interest...
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TokyoTom
on Fri, Oct 2 2009
Filed under: Coal, Bob Murphy, cap and trade, climate change, IER, Scott Horton