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President Obama calls for a price on carbon. Will it work?

June 5, 2010 by Dave Rochlin
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Posted by Dave Rochlin - http://www.ClimatePath.org In a recent speech at Carnegie Mellon University, President Obama called for a price to be put on CO2 emissions, in order to move us on the path towards renewable energy. He figures the market will help do the rest. " ...the only way the transition to clean energy will succeed is if... [read more]

Tree Power

September 12, 2009 by Big Gav
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Gizmag has an article on an unusual form of bio-power - generating an electric current from living (not oxidising) trees - Really green power - running an electric circuit from trees.Researchers at the University of Washington (UW) have taken the term ‘green power’ literally by running an electric circuit from the power generated by... [read more]

An Update on Climate Science Since IPCC

September 11, 2007 by Joseph Romm
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The NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) has released an important document outlining scientific updates to the IPCC since its 2007 reports stopped collecting data at the end of 2005. To grasp the urgency of action, we also need to understand how the physical consequences of global warming have progressed since 2005 and how recent... [read more]