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...issue than I’ve been giving it credit for.” Many scientists say that burning fossil fuels for energy contributes to global warming. While Holdren outlined possible solutions to the problem—including renewable sources of energy and putting a price on greenhouse gas emissions??he emphasized that “each of these approaches has limitations and liabilities.” Holdren said it is difficult to find acceptable locations to build wind turbines. People’s mentality has “changed...from ‘not in my backyard?...
Take, for example, environmentalists who advocate mandatory caps on carbon emissions. In order to halt global warming, reductions would need to be universal and compulsory, not sporadic and voluntary. Yet environmentalists still make individual efforts to reduce their carbon emissions??by buying a Prius, recycling, or paying a premium for wind energy...
...expense or large in their monetary savings (or both); a vow to reduce FAS-wide emissions by 11 percent will certainly bring expenses but will not guarantee savings. By this spring the EAC expects to have data from a more detailed inventory of Harvard’s greenhouse gas emissions??and, in turn, a better idea of the costs of reducing emissions. Without that information, however, it will be impossible to assemble a more concrete proposal for emissions cuts, and so until then it is impossible to judge the merits of any plan to reduce emissions...
...allows some smokestacks and machines to increase their emissions as long as the manufacturing plant overall remains below limits. In addition, changes to the Emissions Calculation Test Methodology will allow factories to use the highest-polluting 24-month period in the preceding decade as a measure of their actual emissions??making it easy to portray future emissions as a reduction, even if they are actually an increase from current levels...
...much-touted “Clean Skies” initiative confirms the suspicions one should rightly have about the environmental and energy policies of the Bush administration. For instance, many are unaware that the plan—which proudly boasts of a cap to noxious sulfur dioxide emissions??actually rolls back previous restrictions on coal-fired power plants. Moreover, the supposed cap is estimated by environmental groups to be too high to make any meaningful difference and acts instead as a smoke screen to protect heavy polluters. And if this meaningless cap were not enough to reject...