Ohio’s Green Hell: JunkScience.com launches job loss awareness campaign « Green Hell Blog

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — JunkScience.com today announced a “Save Ohio Jobs” campaign to educate Ohio voters about steep job losses that may be caused by the Waxman-Markey energy tax bill.

Companies Nudge Rally Against Climate Bill - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

A downtown theater in Houston is expected to be crowded today (live Web cast here) with oil company workers who will hear speakers claim that the Waxman-Markey climate change bill, already passed by the House, will destroy millions of American jobs, raise costs for consumers, and do little or nothing to actually reduce greenhouse gas emissions linked to global warming.

The Greenhouse Gases That Cool Your Fridge - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

BeyondHFCs is seeking agreement on a production ban at talks in December in Copenhagen, aimed at drafting a new global climate treaty.

BeyondHFCs says current technologies should be replaced by using equipment adapted to using fluids like ammonia and propane which much lower greenhouse gas potentials. Such equipment is manufactured by several companies, including Itomic, Advansor, Shecco, Oberist and Earthcare Products — companies that, incidentally, support the group’s campaign against HFCs.

SOCIALIST UNITY » HAS THE LEFT BLOWN ITS BIG CHANCE?

This time, perhaps the real challenge to the tottering status quo is not from the left at all. “The greens share a lot of the ideas of the left,” says Mulgan, “but they are not in coalition with it, they are suspicious of it.” Climate change is almost certain to make environmentalism more powerful. “The dominant sectors of the economy in 10 or 20 years’ time,” Mulgan predicts, will not be banking and property but “environmental services, health, education. This will be good for the left.”