UPS to cut airplane fleet’s carbon output - Carbon Offsets Daily

To meet the carbon-cut goal, UPS will invest in more fuel-efficient aircraft types and engines; adopt fuel-saving operational initiatives and introduce the use of biofuels.

Cap and trade: 2 letters : eLetters Colorado

Ms. Freeman also does not seem to realize that corporations don’t really, in the end, pay taxes. Their tax burdens are passed on to the people who are buying their products and/or services. Please, Ms. Freeman, wake up, every carbon credit cost to corporations will be legally passed on to the taxpayer! That means you and me!

Roger L. Gilbertson, Arvada
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At the heart of all this is energy conservation; also the issue of Global Warming! While experts are passionate on both sides of the issue, there is no CONSENSUS among them that Global Warming even exists!
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Terry McManus, Parker

Media Tend to Doomsay When Addressing Environmental Issues | The X-Journals

According to the research by the UBC, alarmist and catastrophist news focusing on the risk of natural disasters and the urgency of political and economic action “places the emphasis on the heroic efforts of abstract and distant individuals whose motives are not always clear.” This approach, they say, appears to lack references to or be based on citizen’s everyday life.

Analysis: Agreement to limit warming sounds easy but means dramatic lifestyle changes

Leaders of the world’s biggest — and dirtiest — economies have agreed for the first time to limit the warming of the earth to a relatively safe 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) — an important target in fighting climate change.

It sounds simple, but it implies a dramatic shift in the way we generate electricity, fuel our cars and build our homes and skyscrapers.