Prometheus » Blog Archive » How EPA Lost $1.22 Trillion In Its Waxman-Markey Analysis

You can have a lot of fun playing games with assumptions. For instance, EPA managed to lose $1.22 trillion in the costs of the Waxman-Markey cap and trade bill to 2019. Here is how.

Fat Responsible for Global Warming « the Air Vent

If you still think the Global Warming movement is driven by science we have a disagreement. In my opinion this is a political movement first. That doesn’t mean all the scientists are paid off or anything, it only means the ones which say the right things get the stage.

Marc Gunther » They said it at Brainstorm Green

Fedele Bauccio, CEO of Bon Appetit food-service company: “Our chefs are implementing low-carbon diet without losing money or customers”

Fortune Brainstorm Green conference - Apr. 21, 2009

1. Cap-and-trade is a foregone conclusion. Marc Gunther hosted a heavyweight panel Monday night that included industry heavyweights like lawyer Bill Bumpers, enviro honcho Fred Krupp, NRG Energy chief David Crane and Jim Rogers of Duke Energy. To a man, they think the U.S. will have a carbon-trading scheme passed by Congress and signed by President Obama by the first quarter of 2010 at the latest. That expert opinion surprised this non-expert. I thought the overwhelming conventional wisdom was that the Obama administration has downgraded its ambitions for the so-called cap-and-trade plan. I left the panel unsure if the panelists are engaging in wishful thinking or if the conventional wisdom is wrong.

2. One day all cars will be electric. At least that's how I heard Tesla and Better Place investor Alan Salzman say it. It struck me as odd that in our lifetimes we'll replace the 100-year-old, inexpensive gasoline infrastructure. I also wonder if we'll run out of coal if we try to go all-electric. Salzman's response: I'm not forward-thinking enough. Solar, wind and even nuclear will supply plenty of electricity to replace coal, he said.
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