Please enjoy today’s energy debate watch, a collection of news stories and perspectives about energy, environment and climate related issues. These articles are provided to keep Terra Rossa readers informed about the current public energy debate but are not intended to express the views of the blog. Let us know your thoughts on these articles [...]
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A transcript from Monday night’s Republican debate:
MR. FAHEY: Mayor Giuliani, sea levels around the world are rising. Average temperatures are increasing. A U.N. report written by scientists from 113 countries recently said that climate change is very likely man-made and may affect us for centuries to come.
Is science wrong on global warming? And what, if any, steps [...]
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Please enjoy today’s energy debate watch, a collection of news stories and perspectives about energy, environment and climate related issues. These articles are provided to keep Terra Rossa readers informed about the current public energy debate but are not intended to express the views of the blog. Let us know your thoughts on these articles or tell us about other [...]
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I’m not one to sound the climate change alarm every time a hurricane or other tropical storm forms. I’m from South Carolina so I’ve seen more than my fair share. But there’s a storm currently churning in the Persian Gulf region, Cyclone Gonu, with the potential to pack the very one-two-three punch that a group [...]
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Please enjoy today’s energy debate watch, a collection of news stories and perspectives about energy, environment and climate related issues. These articles are provided to keep Terra Rossa readers informed about the current public energy debate but are not intended to express the views of the blog. Let us know your thoughts on these articles or tell us about other [...]
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This week President Bush announced the recipients of this year’s National Medal of Science, the country’s highest scientific honor, and included this year is world renowned climate change researcher Dr. Lonnie Thompson. In his career spanning over three decades, Dr. Thompson has explored glaciers across the world in search of ice cores to bring back [...]
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Please enjoy today’s energy debate watch, a collection of news stories and perspectives about energy, environment and climate related issues. These articles are provided to keep Terra Rossa readers informed about the current public energy debate but are not intended to express the views of the blog. Let us know your thoughts on these articles or tell us about other [...]
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This is noteworthy.
Gen. Gordon Sullivan (ret.), former U.S. Army Chief of Staff and a contributor to National Security and the Threat of Climate Change, yesterday urged G8 nations to “seriously consider” President Bush’s new climate proposal and any other plans for addressing climate change at next week’s summit stating “climate change threatens not just the [...]
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Please enjoy today’s energy debate watch, a collection of news stories and perspectives about energy, environment and climate related issues. These articles are provided to keep Terra Rossa readers informed about the current public energy debate, but are not intended to express the views of the blog. Let us know your thoughts on these articles [...]
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So did Admiral Prueher and General Wald, where these three retired senior military officers testified yesterday before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about the security threats posed to the United States by climate change. Their concerns are the subject of a new report they prepared with eight of their colleagues from all branches of the [...]
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Big news on the carbon cap front today, as Environmental Defense (a sponsor of this blog) announced that the U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP) doubled in size, welcoming a number of new corporations into the organization.
Among the new members are several heavy-hitters, like Alcan, AIG, Johnson & Johnson, Siemens, and Dow Chemical. But the two [...]
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Please enjoy today’s energy debate watch, a collection of news stories and perspectives about energy, environment and climate related issues. These articles are provided to keep Terra Rossa readers informed about the current public energy debate, but are not intended to express the views of the blog. Let us know your thoughts on these articles [...]
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Representatives from 166 nations and interested parties opened talks in Bonn, Germany today to begin negotiating a successor to the Kyoto Protocol.
I’m a South Carolinian, where the state motto is, “while I breathe, I hope,” so I hope the delegates fully understand the faults with Kyoto and avoid similar mistakes.
What should they do differently? Don’t [...]
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Interesting exceprts from last night’s debate:
Q: Governor Huckabee, this question comes from Curtis Waldman from Boca Raton, Florida. Thousands of reputable scientists have concluded with almost certainty that human activity is responsible for the warming of the Earth. Do you believe global warming exists?
GOV. HUCKABEE: The most important thing about global warming is this: Whether [...]
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My native South Carolina is host to some early presidential debates this election season. The Democrats gathered at South Carolina State University last Thursday and Republican hopefuls will be at the University of South Carolina on May 15.
Palmetto State Republicans are stirred about about energy. Forty-four GOP state House members and 10 GOP state Senate [...]
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If America needed another reason to start developing new domestic energy alternatives, here it is, as seen today on Fox News.com:
Last of Venezuela’s Private Oil Fields Taken Over by Government
It’s bad enough that a petty dictator like Hugo Chavez has a strangle-hold on his own people. Now he’s threatening to get a firm grip on [...]
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The Washington Post reports today that Venezuela’s state-owned oil company, PDVSA, will be taking control of the country’s largest development projects:
In the past two years, Venezuela, like energy-rich countries from Russia to Bolivia, has exerted increasing control over its oil. But now, Chavez’s administration will take its biggest leap yet, with the state oil company [...]
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Another major corporate player has joined the Climate Action Partnership and come out in support of a national cap on carbon dioxide emissions, this time Texas-based oil giant ConocoPhillips.
The company’s support of a cap is just another example of corporate America’s growing realization that a carbon cap is coming, and that a market-based cap-and-trade system [...]
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The Hill reports that John Kerry and Newt Gingrich will be debating climate change on Tuesday, April 10 in Washington, DC.
Gingrich “recently teamed up with conservationist Terry Maple to author A Contract with the Earth. Like his Contract with America, A Contract with the Earth, due out Nov. 1, 2007, is based on a 10-point [...]
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Al Gore recognizes that any solution to global warming is going to require a revival of nuclear power. He was edging toward that in his House of Representatives testimony last week — yet downplayed the idea on the following grounds: “Nuclear power plants are the costliest to build and they take the longest time and [...]
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