Climate Change Cash Chase

Starting this week near Madison Square Garden in New York, a 70-foot-high, red digital display sign will indicate projected tons of greenhouse gases that we’re putting into the atmosphere. This giant counter is both green guilt baiting and an advertising stunt by a European climate consultants business venture that expects Obama’s cap-and-trade climate regulations to make them very rich.
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The counter is powered from the city’s electric power grid. But, representatives did not have information on the signs total power consumption or its carbon footprint.

The Chilling Effect | cooling heated rhetoric on global warming » About That Major Global Warming Study …

A good question from Roger Pielke, Jr. (via John Tierney):

[Why] is a report characterized by [White House] Science Advisor John Holdren as being the “most up-to-date, authoritative, and comprehensive” analysis relying on a secondary, non-peer source citing another non-peer reviewed source from 2000 to support a claim that a large amount of uncited and more recent peer-reviewed literature says the opposite about?

Turning Human Organic Waste Into Energy - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

With an eye firmly trained on a job-rich clean-tech future, San Jose city officials this week unveiled a $20-million deal that will see three private partners producing 900,000 gallons of biogas using German technology and 150,000 tonnes of organic waste generated by San Jose residents.
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The city estimates that the project will reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by the equivalent of 1,800 vehicles per year. The project is a partnership between GreenWaste Recovery, Zanker Road Resource Management and Harvest Power Inc., a clean tech firm with backing Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the clean-tech venture capital fund.