What we can learn from Europe’s cap-and-trade system

The Environmental Defense Fund report, meanwhile, says that Europe’s cap has imposed “minimal” costs on the companies involved, although when we follow the report’s footnotes, this statement appears to be based largely on a single Greenwire article from 2010, which quotes a utilities analyst at UBS saying, “It does have an impact already, but it’s rather tiny.” Fair enough, but we’d like to see more hard data on this.

Twitter / RyanMaue: ECMWF 12z drops cold hammer ...

ECMWF 12z drops cold hammer on NW and Western US in 7-10 days. Trending much colder...

Twitter / ClimateReality: We’ve received over 100 awesome ...

We’ve received over 100 awesome designs for the #dirtyweather T-shirt contest – pick your favorite: http://ow.ly/eyLes

Is Climate Change the Number One Threat to Humanity?

This paper challenges claims that global warming outranks other threats facing humanity through the foreseeable future (assumed to be 2085–2100).

My chat with Ian Masters on Obama/Romney debate...

My chat with Ian Masters on Obama/Romney debate drillfest and climate gap, public attitudes, shifting baselines of perception (one generation’s problem is next generation’s norm), etc.