Thursday, May 23, 2013

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Twitter / clim8resistance: Has Enron been forgotten in ...
Has Enron been forgotten in this 'new' age of 'negawatts'? @WillN_BG @GregBarkerMP
Twitter / clim8resistance: The UK's climate minister, ...
The UK's climate minister, thinks negative quantities are tradable commodities.
CBO: Carbon tax an option to avoid 'catastrophic' outcomes - The Hill's E2-Wire
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) noted Wednesday that a carbon tax could generate “significant” revenues for the United States and avert “catastrophic” effects of climate change.

CBO said in a new report that there are many uncertainties about how to design and implement a carbon tax, but waiting too long to curb greenhouse gas emissions would have clear results.  [Like what, specifically?]
Campus California Spotlights Intense Storms Caused by Climate Change | Virtual-Strategy Magazine
According to the article, Tropical Storm Irene (and the damage that it caused) “wasn’t just another 1-in-500-years event happening, a freak occurrence, a one-off event. Rather, experts see it as the new normal across the Northeast, the latest in a series of calamitous weather events occurring because of, or amplified by, climate change.”
Appropriations: House proposes 'devastating' cuts to Interior, EPA accounts in fiscal 2014 -- Wednesday, May 22, 2013 -- www.eenews.net
House appropriators yesterday proposed allocating $24.3 billion to the subcommittee that funds the Interior Department, Forest Service and U.S. EPA for next fiscal year, a level that would likely require significant cuts to a host of conservation programs, clean water grants, and climate change and habitat restoration work, environmentalists warned.

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