Do lawyers have 'moral courage' to fight climate change? | News | eco-business.com

Singapore, May 4 - Humankind has the ability to stave off climate change, but what is needed is political and legal will. Yesterday, former United States Vice-President Al Gore called on lawyers to find the “moral courage” and “rule of law” to find a solution to the environmental crisis.

“When the mountain glaciers are gone and there’s climatic chaos, the next generation of ours will be asking ‘What were you thinking? Didn’t you have any lawyers?’” he said. The author of An Inconvenient Truth was speaking to a packed hall of some 500 lawyers at the Inter-Pacific Bar Association Conference yesterday.

James M. Taylor: Cap and trade -- taxing our way to bankruptcy - Wednesday, May. 5, 2010

Harry Reid apparently believes Congress has successfully numbed the American public to economy-busting programs that increase government power while delivering no real-world benefits. As the political spotlight now turns to costly, ineffectual global-warming legislation, we will soon learn whether Americans will finally stand up to a Congress intent on bankrupting the nation for no good reason.

Do Carbon Markets Really Help The Climate? |  Emissions Trading | Allianz Knowledge

Governments back cap-and-trade to cut CO2. But does emissions trading actually reduce emissions? Absolutely, insists European Climate Exchange CEO Patrick Birley, but forget the trades, concentrate on the cap.

Fart Chart: Cow Emissions by State | Mother Jones

The EPA has spent nearly $15 million and two years studying bovine emissions to assess how they affect climate change. So what's the result?