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Is Climate Change Getting in the Way of Energy Reform?
The fight over the legitimacy of climate change science in the U.S.Congress has resulted in other equally pressing concerns (regarding theuse of fossil fuels) being largely ignored. It has caused the debateover energy reform to center largely upon greenhouse gases; but whatabout the extraction and refining process as well as some the otherenvironmental problems our [...]
What’s Better? Climate Change OR Climate Disruption?
A couple years ago global warming was the hot term to describe how our earth atmosphere was getting filled up with too much CO2. Then, the liberals/progressive or whatever they want to be calledthought that global warming might be the incorrect term, becausealthough the temperature of the earth on average is increasing, in someplaces the [...]
U.S. Climate-Change Envoy Briefs Press
MR. TONER: Good afternoon. We’re very pleased to haveSpecial Envoy Todd Stern here today to give us the lay of the land oninternational climate negotiations post-Copenhagen. As you know, inlate January, the U.S. announced that it submitted its pledge to limitor reduce greenhouse emissions under the Copenhagen Accord, as did allof the world’s major economies. [...]
How will Solar change the electrical contractor business
I read an interesting article yesterday regarding how the solar industry will change the job of electricians. My experience is thus: Electricians get asked a lot of questionsabout solar (photovoltaics mostly) by their customers. Some attempt togive good answers, some may even look into doing solar installations alittle, but most are not interested. At least right [...]
SEC To Provide Guidance on Companies Climate Change Disclosure
Recently the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)voted to provide guidance to publicly-listed companies regarding thelevel and quality of their disclosures on climate change and its"material" impact on their businesses. The SEC action putspressure on companies to step up the quality of information andanalysis on climate risk that they provide to stockholders. This newguidance will [...]
Entech Solar announces change in executive leadership
Entech Solar Inc. announced that David Gelbaum, the company’’s Chairmanand Trustee of The Quercus Trust, a major shareholder in the company,will become Chief Executive Officer (CEO, effective immediately. Hewill replace Dr. Frank W. Smith, who has served as the Company’s CEOsince March of 2008. Dr. Smith, while stepping down from his CEO role,will continue to [...]
Tea Party’s Climate Change Denial
TeaParty supporters deny the existence of climate change and oppose anyattempt to regulate emissions. Despite their distrust of science andresistance to civil debate, the Tea Party’s crusade is gainingmomentum. Republican organizers are hoping to channel Tea Party angerinto electing a conservative Congress in 2010 and a conservativepresident in 2012. The Tea Party movement began about [...]
US Supreme Court Undermines Climate Change Legislation
Ina 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court of the United States recentlyoverturned campaign finance laws. This encourages more direct spendingby corporations, unions and wealthy individuals. According to a Needham& Co. estimate, $2.8 billion will be spent in the US on issueoriented influence this year. The ruling removes restrictionsfor federal campaign financing by corporations, unions, and otherspecial [...]
15 Cities Vulnerable to Climate Change
Maputo, Mozambique Population: 1.1 millionLand: Coastal lowlands bordering the Indian OceanClimate: Tropical humid with an annual rainfall of 900 millimetres (mm)Major concerns: Cyclones which cause flooding, a rise in sea level and coastal erosion WorldWatch Institute Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania Population: 2.1 millionLand: Contains the watersheds of four major rivers; some woodland, coastal swamps, coastal [...]