Today’s Washington Post summarizes an impending Clean Air Act case regarding the EPA’s authority to regulate carbon dioxide emissions.
The Bush administration is defending its refusal to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from new motor vehicles in the first case about global warming to reach the Supreme Court. The Environmental Protection Agency lacks the power to regulate [...]
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Numerous polls show that the economy is one of the most important “problems” facing the country, and that Americans perceive the economy to be in the doldrums. Yet objective economic indicators have rarely been better, with low inflation, low unemployment, and the stock market posting record highs on a regular basis.
How could that be? [...]
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The Wall Street Journal opined on the issue of climate change earlier this month, and what they said got my attention. The topic of their Nov. 2 editorial, “Climate Non-Conformity”,¯ was a study on the economic impact of climate change, called the Stern Report (so named for the report’s [...]
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Check out an interesting post at the Rooftop Blog. The author argues that “effective care of God’s creation is a moral and spiritual obligation” for a variety of reasons:
Choose to do this for a variety of reasons. You may be keenly concerned about global warming. Others of you may see environmental conservation as a [...]
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According to a survey our firm conducted last July, voters say that dependence on foreign sources of energy is the single greatest challenge to the U.S. economy over the next 20 years. Moreover, they say the U.S. needs to decrease the percent of energy that it gets from fossil fuels, and that the U.S. [...]
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Bill “The Other” Tucker is a learned gent. He’s so right, below, about Gore and nuclear power. So right about cap & trade market mechanisms, so right about the Right and climate change.
But he’s wrong about Kyoto. It’s politically untenable here in the US, and potentially unworkable everywhere else. I see it as history. Worth [...]
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As long as we’re in a bi-partisan mood and George Bush is looking for ways to accommodate the electorate, I think it’s time for the Administration to do a 180-degree turn and embrace the Kyoto Protocols.
It’s one of the more disconcerting things about conservatives to see how they’re stonewalling on global warming. Nobody [...]
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In a previous posting I blogged that following the mid-term elections Republicans need to stake out some new ground while standing on our principles. Supporting a market-based approach toward developing new breakthrough energy technologies would be a good place to start.
My fellow South Carolinian Sen. Lindsey Graham thinks so, too.
In [...]
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Rob Day and Neal Dikeman over at the Cleantech Investing blog have posted interesting reviews of last week’s Energy Venture Fair VII, an annual event described by its organizers as a “gathering place for investors looking for up-and-coming energy technology companies who are actively seeking to raise capital.” Investors and CEOs of approximately 50 energy-related [...]
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The owner of Fox News is the latest leader to acknowledge that climate change is something we need to address:
“I have to admit that, until recently, I was somewhat wary of the warming debate. I believe it is now our responsibility to take the lead on this issue. Some of the presumptions about extreme [...]
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Here at Terra Rossa, we describe our blog as a forum “where conservatives consider a new energy future.”¯ But what exactly is that “new energy future” and what does that mean after Tuesday’s blowout elections?
First, the relevance of the elections: our movement (conservatism) and my party (Republican) are shaking off the effects [...]
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Today we are featuring an editorial from Christianity Today that addresses the global warming question from a religious point of view.
The article quotes Richard Cizik of the National Association of Evangelicals, one of our bloggers. Cizik is just one of several influential conservative voices who will be contributing to Terra Rossa, providing a range [...]
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Congressman Bob Inglis (R-SC4) came up with the triple play metaphor (jobs, pollution, security– see my previous post). The new head of the Christian Coalition and the former Deputy Chief of Naval Operations have a lot to say about these things in an Orlando Sentinel op-ed column. I can’t vouch for the conservatism of the [...]
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Fossil Fuels have been very, very good to me. You, too.
Think about a life without them and you start imagining a return to backbreaking labor, rampant disease, and shorter lifespans.
Or, you start imagining a really great future. That’s why I’m blogging here–to promote solutions to some of our biggest challenges and reject some of the [...]
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