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...Hamilton, Mass. “What he said definitely fueled us for the match,” said captain Nicholas B. Snow ’09. “He really wanted to see what the Harvard polo team could do if we put our foot on the gas.” Jones has been one of the team’s strongest supporters and invited the team to his Texas ranch in early September. A polo player himself, Jones said he was impressed with the team’s overall performance. “The players have a variety...
...like wind and solar, as well as the green jobs that the sector has the potential to create. At California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's climate summit on Nov. 18, Obama, in taped remarks, reaffirmed that he would hold fast to those campaign promises, starting with mandatory caps on greenhouse gas emissions. "This is a crucial step forward," says Linda Church Ciocci, the executive director of the National Hydropower Association...
...annual World Energy Outlook, released Nov. 12, projects that global energy demand will increase by 45% between 2006 and 2030 - and that $26 trillion in power-supply investments will be necessary simply to meet those needs. Barring radical changes in our energy policy - beyond what Obama has pledged - greenhouse gas emissions will rise 45% by 2030, and extreme global warming would be virtually unavoidable. See TIME's special report on the environment...
That's going to cost roughly $1 trillion a year for all energy investments. And if we want to increase the share of renewables - and control the growth of greenhouse gas emissions - we'll need to spend an additional $9.3 trillion, if we're aiming to stay below the 2 degree C warming max recommended by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. (Of course, an increasing number of scientists argue that we need to avoid even that level of warming.) "We would need concerted action from all major emitters," said Nabuo Tanaka, the head...
Environmentalists point out that many actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions - like improving energy efficiency - can pay for themselves with long-term savings. But the sheer size of the figures involved point to the need for intelligent policymaking now, before we install hundreds of new coal power plants or begin ripping up the Rocky Mountains for oil shale...