Hillary Clinton’s Plan to Get Serious About Global Warming - The Daily Beast

The secretary of state’s new plan to deal with pollutants other than fossil fuels could be a game changer, write David G. Victor, Charles F. Kennel, and Veerabhadran Ramanathan.

Dreaming Up a Whole New Carbon [Dioxide]  Market - NYTimes.com

The Department of Energy is therefore looking into the potential for developing the other carbon market. In the conference’s keynote address, Richard Kauffman, a senior adviser to Steven Chu, the secretary of energy, said that such a market could play an important role in increasing domestic oil production and lowering emissions. There are other uses, too, like feeding algae, which can produce biofuel; stimulating plant growth in greenhouses; and turning it into a coolant for air conditioners.

Native Americans and a Changing Climate | The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media

“The tribes are on the front lines of climate change,” Garrit Voggesser, national director, tribal partnerships for the National Wildlife Federation, said in a recent phone interview. The organization’s August 2011 report, “Facing the Storm,” found that extreme heat waves and drought projected in a warmer climate can harm plants, increase wildlife mortality and heighten risks of wildfires and habitat loss.

...Fred Fox, who oversees oil and gas production for The Three Affiliated Tribes, said in a phone interview that the tribes see oil production as a huge economic opportunity in an area which long had suffered high unemployment. And Dewey Hosie, deputy director of the tribal employment rights office, said that now “most of our people who want to enter the work force are working.”

In the first five months of 2012, the tribes earned $21.5 million in royalties, and the numbers are likely to be double what they were in 2011, Fox said.

These people are in charge of our power prices? | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

The most alarming inclusion is Clive Hamilton.  Exactly how drastic must be the cuts to our emissions and hike in our power bills to satisfy a man who writes:

Very few people, even among environmentalists, have truly faced up to what the science is telling us. This is because the implications of 3C, let alone 4C or 5C, are so horrible that we look to any possible scenario to head it off, including the canvassing of “emergency” responses such as the suspension of democratic processes.

And:

We can only avoid catastrophe - including millions dying in the Third World - if we radically change the way we in the rich countries go about our daily lives. Above all, we must abandon our comfortable belief in progress.

This man is advising on how much cheap electricity we can have? You have got to be joking.