Sen. Lugar to propose climate bill alternative

For heavy-polluting coal-fired power plants, they would be excused from investing in expensive scrubbers over the next few years and in return would voluntarily retire the plants in 2020.

Absent from Lugar's bill will be any new "cap and trade" system for carbon pollution permits, an idea that anchors climate change legislation passed nearly a year ago by the House of Representatives and included in a draft bill presented by senators John Kerry and Joseph Lieberman on May 12.
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"Lugar's bill is a main alternative to the divisive cap-and-trade approach," said a press release announcing next week's bill introduction.

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For anyone interested in how climatologists collate and interpret the all-important average global temperature datasets the paper (which is yet to be peer reviewed) is an illuminating read, but perhaps the most interesting section for a wider audience - which Hansen admits "might not survive depending on the advice of the [journal's] editors" - is the final concluding section

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In breach of calls for openness and transparency in climate science, the University of East Anglia, together with Eugene Wahl and Caspar Amman, have refused to provide documents critical to the inquiry that Muir Russell should be undertaking.