Word: carbonization
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...corporate pressure that it’s “new” automotive efficiency standards still lag far behind those of most of the rest of the developed world.Barring a quantum leap forward in energy efficiency, the improvements necessary to significantly shrink the country’s carbon footprint would involve fundamental adjustments in how we lead our lives. So these conscientious entrepreneurs took it upon themselves to deliver a quantum leap forward. Google’s philanthropic arm, Google.org promised to produce enough energy to power a city the size of San Francisco, one gigawatt, in the coming...
...Climate Change executive chairman Yvo de Boer praised the constructive behavior of China, which for the first time seemed open to the principle of developing countries' sharing responsibility for climate action. (The Kyoto Protocol, whose 10th anniversary is Tuesday, had required only industrialized nations to make mandatory cuts in carbon gas emissions, on the principle that those nations had created most of the problem.) Also, the delegation of the United States - long the chief spoiler of progress toward a global emissions-curbing framework while erstwhile climate-change skeptic President George W. Bush had been at the helm - has been notably...
...advances that would have been virtually unthinkable 18 months ago - but they're still not anywhere near enough. To avert the worst consequences of global warming, we'll need to all but eliminate carbon dioxide emissions by mid-century, and that will require a wholesale change in the way Americans (and eventually everyone else) use energy, work, consume, even live. There's only one person in the world with both the political power and the moral authority to lead such a drastic transformation: the President of the United States. Unfortunately, says David Orr, the head of environmental studies at Oberlin...
...just released Presidential Climate Action Plan (PCAP), an ambitious to-do list on global warming for the next Administration. PCAP calls on the next President to make climate change his or her signature issue, to spend the first 100 days in office preparing America for a post-carbon world, committing the country to cut greenhouse gas emissions 90% by 2050. It's far grander than anything Congress or any Presidential candidate has proposed, but to Orr climate change is a threat on par with World War II, and it demands the same immediate, all-or-nothing commitment - starting with...
...recommendations in PCAP are radical, but not new: cut petroleum use in half by 2020, achieve average fuel economy of 50 mpg, shift the federal government to carbon neutrality. But what makes PCAP particularly impressive is the way it turns the question of climate change away from saving the planet, and toward saving the country. Global warming is too important to be left to the environmentalists - it's a national security issue, an economic issue, even a moral issue. That's the kind of language that can appeal not only to traditional greens but to Republicans, and make climate change...