Wednesday, July 04, 2012

U.K. Climate Expert Warns Korea Over Excess Permit Allocation - Bloomberg

The U.K. Embassy helped arrange for members of South Korea’s National Assembly’s Special Committee on Climate Change and Green Growth to visit London and Brussels to learn more about cap and trade, a Korean government official said. They plan to bring in U.K. experts from government, industry and academia this year, Watters said.

The Korean government has yet to announce compliance rules for the bill, which calls for emissions trading to start in 2015. The government may give away 95 percent of the permits companies need for three to six years, according to the bill.

Twitter / PaulREhrlich: If you know Senator Imhofe

If you know Senator Imhofe read this to him slowly. Climate Change Is Already Shrinking Crop Yields via

Eugene Robinson: Feeling the heat - The Washington Post

But if government-funded research had managed to lower the price of solar panels to the point where it became economical to install them on residential roofs, all you global-warming skeptics would have air conditioning right now. I’m just sayin’.

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