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Energy and Environment
Funding alternative energy may end up being a poor use of federal dollars if local utilities regulators continue to run a short-sighted, politically motivated, counterproductive strategy.
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Cap-and-trade is an inappropriate policy tool for the control of greenhouse gases that will cause significant economic harm with little or no environmental benefit.
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Although it creates only a slight reduction in the amount of solar energy absorbed by the Earth, solar radiation management should be a part of U.S. climate policy.
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Reading the climate news in recent weeks, one might start to wonder who won the last election.
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To build resilience to the impact of global warming, the United States should incorporate an adaptation agenda as well as advance technologies that allow the removal of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.
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Going into the Copenhagen climate change summit, the delegates appear to be competing over who can offer the most ambitious and least realistic targets.
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By Kenneth P. Green
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House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming
Thursday, October 22, 2009
How can we best build U.S. resilience to the impact of global warming?
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Instead of seeking greenhouse gas reductions, we need to foster resilience: the ability to withstand changes and bounce back from them.
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Contrary to current policy approaches that focus on mitigating GHG emissions to the exclusion of everything else, resilience should be considered the default climate strategy.
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Does the campaign against plastic bags make environmental sense?
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