Climate talks must agree aviation CO2 cap-UK adviser By Reuters

It is vital that an agreement capping global aviation emissions is part of a Copenhagen deal," said committee chief executive David Kennedy in interim advice to the government. "We are calling for a cap that would not require people to fly less than today, but would constrain aviation emissions growth."
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Radical changes to planes' engines, fuel and airframes will play an important part in any plan to cut emissions, the committee said. Countries must identify ways of helping the aviation industry to fund extra research in this area.

Tesla to Launch Munich Store as Pace of EU Deliveries Accelerates

“The Roadster is quickly becoming the vehicle of choice for discriminating Europeans,” said Tesla CEO Elon Musk. “Many of our customers are die-hard European sports car aficionados who switch to Roadsters over concern about climate change and the dangers of foreign oil addiction..."

[Hope and change]: 5 reasons why Van Jones and progressives are better off with Jones out of the White House | Grist

The end of Van Jones’ brief career as a White House insider, in the semi-obscure position of special adviser for green jobs at the Council on Environmental Quality, is likely good for Van Jones and very good for progressives.
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4. He has a renewed charge to speak the truth: Jones was attacked by the right for basically saying what is true: that Republicans are a$$holes...

Why are the solutions to global warming being born outside the U.S.?

And we seem constitutionally averse to risk--something that would have embarrassed our founding fathers, who might now look at us as floundering bothers.

Cooler Heads Digest 3 September 2009 | GlobalWarming.org

Although the Chairman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) has the votes to get almost any cap-and-trade bill out of committee, this delay means that it is highly unlikely that Boxer will meet Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev) deadline of 28th September. That is when all committees of jurisdiction are supposed to have their pieces of comprehensive energy-rationing legislation ready to go to the Senate floor. Senate action on cap-and-trade this fall looks less likely now.

Cooler Heads Digest 3 September 2009 | GlobalWarming.org

The Science and Public Policy Institute invites Congressional staff to a briefing with the Viscount Monckton of Benchley on Wednesday, September 9th, from Noon-1:30 PM, in Dirksen 215 Senate Office Building.

UNESCO Convenes Broadcast Media and Climate Change Conference - Climate-L.org

Participants representing approximately 1000 broadcasters agreed upon the Paris Declaration on Broadcast Media and Climate Change, which aims to strengthen regional and international collaboration, and encourage production and dissemination of audiovisual content to give a voice to marginalized populations affected by climate change.