a bigger threat than China

Taiwan's president said climate change presents a bigger threat to the island than China.

Cap-n-Trade

Nate Silver's take on the prospect of last week's Climate Change Bill passing the Senate.

out of touch

Last week I heard from more than one sources (Bill Maher and somewhere else) that Cap-N-Trade is not gonna happen this year. Then I saw this on the news. I should check and see what the professional pundits have to say about this.

1/3 of China's greenhouse emission caused by the West

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alex-pasternack/one-third-of-chinas-co2-e_b_169628.html

Just finished

Thomas Fridman's Hot, Flat, and Crowded. All in all a good read, but I think I waited too long to finish this one. I remember I first started reading this back in December, before Christmas. It's been so long that I have forgotten a lot of the details in the first third of the book.

In many ways, this book summarized what I read about the Green movement from other sources. Too much of the Green movement focused on the 10 little things that most of us can do to save the Earth, but was pretty deficient when it comes to paying the real cost. Too often we're treated like children by our leaders on this issue.

Friedman also did a great job exploring the incidental issues relating to climate change, like the geopolitical consequences of our addiction to oil. What this book can use more of is solutions. Friedman emphasized that political leadership is needed to create impact on this issue, but devoted very few pages to the politics of climate change. For example, the debate on whether a carbon cap and trade regime is better than an across the board Carbon Tax got only two paragraphs.