Hundreds of private e-mails and documents hacked from a computer server at a British university are causing a stir among global warming skeptics, who say they show that climate scientists conspired to overstate the case for a human influence on climate change.
Testimony before The Energy and Commerce Committee U.S House of Representatives April 22, 2009
My name is David Kreutzer. I am the Senior Policy Analyst in Energy Economics and Climate Change at The Heritage Foundation. The views I express in this testimony are my own, and should not be construed as representing any official position of The Heritage Foundation. I want to thank the members of the Energy and Commerce Committee for this opportunity to address you concerning the economic impacts of cap-and-trade policies.
This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998.
Senate Democrats will initially devote 70 percent of the pollution allowances in their new climate measure to making it easier for people to pay their energy bills, Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman Barbara Boxer said in an interview to be aired Sunday on C-SPAN.
The French government plans next year to begin making heavy users of household and transport fuels bear more of the tax burden. President Nicolas Sarkozy is expected to say in coming weeks that such a shift is necessary to nudge French citizens toward cleaner alternatives.
Mr. Carlin is instead an explanation for why the science debate is little reported in this country. The professional penalty for offering a contrary view to elites like Al Gore is a smear campaign. The global-warming crowd likes to deride skeptics as the equivalent of the Catholic Church refusing to accept the Copernican theory. The irony is that, today, it is those who dare critique the new religion of human-induced climate change who face the Inquisition.
The EPA Silences a Climate Skeptic - WSJ.com (via sds) (via hilker)
Energy: By promoting the adoption of renewable-energy technology, a smart grid would be good for the environment—and for innovation.
Steve Fielding recently asked the Obama administration to reassure him on the science of man-made global warming. When the administration proved unhelpful, Mr. Fielding decided to vote against climate-change legislation.
If you haven’t heard of this politician, it’s because he’s a member of the Australian Senate. As the U.S. House of Representatives prepares to pass a climate-change bill, the Australian Parliament is preparing to kill its own country’s carbon-emissions scheme. Why? A growing number of Australian politicians, scientists and citizens once again doubt the science of human-caused global warming.
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Handing President Barack Obama a victory on one of his top priorities, lawmakers in the House of Representatives narrowly approved on Friday a sweeping bill to curb greenhouse-gas emissions and boost use of renewable energy in the United States, overcoming the objections of critics who said the bill would wreak severe damage on the American economy.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has put cap-and-trade legislation on a forced march through the House, and the bill may get a full vote as early as Friday. It looks as if the Democrats will have to destroy the discipline of economics to get it done.
Residents of this upscale community are suburban pioneers, going where few soccer moms or commuting executives have ever gone before: they have given up their cars.
Street parking, driveways and home garages are generally forbidden in this experimental new district on the outskirts of Freiburg, near the French and Swiss borders. Vauban’s streets are completely “car-free” — except the main thoroughfare, where the tram to downtown Freiburg runs, and a few streets on one edge of the community. Car ownership is allowed, but there are only two places to park — large garages at the edge of the development, where a car-owner buys a space, for $40,000, along with a home.
As a result, 70 percent of Vauban’s families do not own cars, and 57 percent sold a car to move here. “When I had a car I was always tense. I’m much happier this way,” said Heidrun Walter, a media trainer and mother of two, as she walked verdant streets where the swish of bicycles and the chatter of wandering children drown out the occasional distant motor.
Again, not all of us live within walking distance of everything in our lives. I choose not to live in the city because I value peace, quiet and not having to deal with my neighbor looking in my window. Emphasis mine.
Microsoft is the latest tech heavyweight to enter the world of energy with its free monitoring software Hohm.
…Ultimately it could be used by utilities to manage their own peaks by switching off appliances remotely during peak times, in exchange for offering some sort of saving on energy bills. Google has already picked up a handful of utility partners and Microsoft so far has four, according to ReadWriteWeb: Puget Sound Energy, Sacramento Municipal Utility District, Seattle City Light, and Xcel Energy.
New Orleans resident Jordan Walters quit his sales job this year to join a youth service program that would allow him to explore a field he believes will be recession-proof, renewable energy.
SAN FRANCISCO — If Congress passes legislation that puts a price on carbon emissions, companies will need to track and report the waste from their operations.
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, one of Silicon Valley’s top venture capital firms, is betting that such a cap-and-trade law or carbon tax will open the door for a new kind of software company.
Now isn’t it funny that the man behind ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ stands to make a tidy sum if this cap-and-trade deal goes through? I’ll cap my carbon when you sell the McMansion and drive across the nation instead of flying, Al. Emphasis mine.
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This podcast has a European angle, but listen to the contempt present and the underlying message that Americans deserve to pay, a lot, for energy and a questionable climate change policy. Emphasis mine.
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