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CNBC (September 24)

2022/ 09/ 24 by jd in Global News

“The airline race for a breakthrough fuel to cut one billion tons of carbon is just starting.” As a result of the Inflation Reduction Act, “more investor money is expected to flow into green hydrogen… with climate analysts describing the tax credits as being a huge driver for sustainable aviation fuels because science aside, the biggest challenge with scaling up these operations and SAF production has been the financial incentive.”

 

BBC (April 4)

2022/ 04/ 06 by jd in Global News

“Even if all the policies to cut carbon that governments had put in place by the end of 2020 were fully implemented, the world will still warm by 3.2C this century…. The good news is that this latest IPCC summary shows that it can be done…. But keeping temperatures down will require massive changes to energy production, industry, transport, our consumption patterns and the way we treat nature.”

 

The Science Times (September 21)

2020/ 09/ 22 by jd in Global News

“The Copernicus Atmosphere Monitory Service in Europe has monitored over 100 wildfires in the Arctic” since June. “The ‘zombie fires’ have been the worst this year since reliable monitoring began in 2003.” In June alone, the Arctic fires had already released an amount of carbon comparable “to how much the greenhouse gas is emitted in an entire year from smaller nations like Cuba and Tunisia.”

 

LA Times (December 19)

2017/ 12/ 20 by jd in Global News

While the Trump administration is busy removing references to issues it would rather not acknowledge and covering them up with doublespeak, “the reality is that…the burning of fossil fuels by humans, spewing carbon and other greenhouse gases into the air… has increased the temperature of the Earth’s atmosphere and oceans. And unless we take quick and radical steps… the world as we know it will change, with species die-offs, coastline changes, more intense major storms and altered drought and rain patterns. And it will happen whether Trump uses the words ‘climate change’ or not.”

 

Washington Post (November 18, 2013)

2013/ 11/ 19 by jd in Global News

Little is definitively known about global warming, but it would be wise to take pragmatic measures. “Putting a price on carbon—through a tax on oil, coal and natural gas—that reflects global warming’s costs… would promote energy efficiency and favor renewables.” But how would one determine the size of that carbon tax? “We don’t know global warming’s full effects…. But we do know the size of the budget deficit, and we do know that revenue from a carbon tax might help finance a simplification of the income tax. By addressing multiple problems, an admittedly unpopular carbon tax might command broader support.”

 

Institutional Investor (August Issue)

2013/ 08/ 17 by jd in Global News

“Investors confront the risk of a carbon bubble fueled by stranded oil and gas assets” should major governments decide to impose strict carbon legislation to combat climate change. One recent report asserts that “to limit the rise in global temperatures to 2 degrees Celsius between now and 2050, only 20 percent of the world’s fossil fuel reserves can be extracted and burned.”

 

Los Angeles Times (January 6)

2013/ 01/ 06 by jd in Global News

“Societal change usually happens slowly, even once it’s clear there’s a problem.” This is not necessarily a bad thing. A leisurely pace allows a consensus to be established, eliminating backlash. “With climate change, however, there simply isn’t time to waste…. It’s a fight between human beings and physics. And physics is entirely uninterested in human timetables. Physics couldn’t care less if precipitous action raises gas prices or damages the coal industry in swing states. It couldn’t care less whether putting a price on carbon slowed the pace of development in China or made agribusiness less profitable.”

 

The Economist (February 17)

2011/ 02/ 18 by jd in Global News

There has been little success in slowing climate change or reducing carbon emissions. Sweeping new international agreements are elusive. The Economist believes it’s time to look at smaller measures that can gain quick agreement. For example, the industrial gas HFC-134 could be eliminated under the existing Montreal protocol. Substitutes are already available for this gas which “delivers more than 1,000 times more warming than carbon dioxide, mass for mass.” Banning HFC-134 would make a difference and could be done quickly. Success in smaller agreements may even “help build the trust, ambition and momentum needed to get further on deals to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions.”

 

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