Cap and Trade: Will The Senate Go For Carbon Tariffs, Too? - Environmental Capital - WSJ

In the new Senate energy and climate bill, there are plenty of details left to be hashed out later—starting with how the bill would actually build a cap-and-trade program in the first place.

But one area yet to be fleshed out, in particular, has the potential to make or break the bill: How the U.S. deals with the intersection of climate change and international trade.

The Boxer-Kerry bill devotes a single sentence to what has become an increasingly thorny question: Should the U.S. slap carbon tariffs on imports from countries that don’t curb their own greenhouse gases, as the House climate bill did?

A Timely Reminder of the Real Limits to Growth by Bill McKibben: Yale Environment 360

Now we’re the lung cancer patient trying to sneak cigarettes in the ICU.

Actually, we're the healthy person trying to sneak breaths of air with trace amounts of CO2 in it.

Antarctic Night – Antarctic Light | Ice Stories: Dispatches From Polar Scientists

...This photo was taken on September 2nd when the temperature was near -30 F with strong winds creating bitter wind chill temperatures and blowing snow. On the next day the temperature dropped to -49 F, which set the all-time record low temperature for McMurdo in September.

Time to "fill up" an electric car: 240-600 minutes (if you can find a place to do so)

To charge quickly, garage plugs will need to carry 220 volts, Mr. Darbee said — whereas every other plug but the electric dryer (also 220 volts) carries 110-volts. With the higher voltage, cars can charge in four or five hours, rather than as much as 10 hours with a lower voltage.

Time to fill up a conventional fossil-fueled vehicle: 4 minutes

David Leider, a former marketing executive at Yahoo Inc. who is the company's chief executive, says they are focused on making the programming useful to users and tailored to the average length of time it takes to fill up with gas — about four minutes.