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You can be a believer in making climate policy based on science, or you can be a Republican. You cannot be both.
Archive for the ‘Climate change’ Category
November 18th, 2010
October 19th, 2010
Category: Climate change, Politics and Leadership
Apparently, people who don’t believe in global warming will still conserve energy and promote non-fossil fuels if you give them other (including religious) reasons. My experience in political advocacy over the years tells me that environmentalists will have a mixed reaction to this. When I was pushing for the first mental health parity law, I [...]
October 3rd, 2010
Category: 2010 Democratic Agenda, Climate change, Energy and Environment, Politics and Leadership, The Dysfunctional Senate
Obama and the Senate “missed a chance” to get comprehensive climate legislation. You cannot be serious.
September 14th, 2010
Category: Climate change, Economics
It’s a fact (see previous post) that some big corporations are getting serious about lightening their carbon footprints. There are good lobbies – progressive business groups, consumer activists, ethical investors – trying to increase their numbers. Companies don’t need technical advice from the likes of me on how to cut direct energy inputs; or, if [...]
September 5th, 2010
Category: Climate change
Anyone seriously considering plunking down a few million bucks for a private island retreat should contemplate the fate of Tuvalu. Due to global warming and rising sea levels, the island’s ten thousand inhabitants may soon have to relocate as their land is swallowed by the sea
September 3rd, 2010
Jersey Electricity and Jersey Gas fight over marginal carbon emissions from imported electricity.
August 26th, 2010
The Obama Administration sides with polluters in the key climate change case. Maybe Bernie Madoff for head of the Consumer Financial Protection Agency?
August 19th, 2010
Now that the Republicans have blocked climate change legislation, the administration has a change to ratchet up the pressure through litigation.
August 18th, 2010
A plea for charity alone is not, I’ll admit, compelling reading. Here, then, are some actual reasons to believe we may be less inclined to help Pakistan after the floods than we should be.
