The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
grist.org On Monday, John McCain will deliver a speech on climate change from Portland, Oregon. In it he will lay out the framework for climate policy under a McCain administration. After a primary spent shoring up his credentials among the Republican base, this is the beginning of his general election strategy: Operation I'm Not Bush. (One important note: the speech is not on energy. McCain will...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
grist.org Though the nation's pundits have decided that the primary race is over , someone failed to get Clinton the memo -- she is determined to stay in to the bitter end . The next primaries are in West Virginia and Kentucky, states where the number of poor whites is high and consequently the Obama campaign expects to get crushed ; there's a good chance that even if Clinton dropped out tomorrow,...
Gristmill (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
By David Roberts Remember Spike Maynard? He was the chief justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court, the one caught canoodling around the Caribbean with mountaintop mining executive Don Blankenship -- and some young women to whom, suffice to say, they were not betrothed -- while Blankenship's company, Massey Energy , had a case before the court. Maynard said he just happened to run...
The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
David Roberts looks at McCain's climate plan.
Gristmill (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
By David Roberts The following is a Q&A on John McCain's climate platform, released on Monday by the McCain campaign. I'm posting it here because it gets into more detail than any other published material I've seen. ----- Q&A: John McCain's Climate Platform How does cap-and-trade work? • Cap-and-trade is a mechanism that would set a limit on greenhouse-gas emissions (GHG) and create...
Gristmill (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
By David Roberts One thing you frequently hear from nuclear proponents is that nuke plants would pencil out fine if not for all those pesky safety regulations, NIMBYs, lawsuits, protests, and other political ephemera. If we could just get rid of that stuff! But that's a market democracy. It's not like failing because everyone hates you and tries to keep you away doesn't count or something....
Gristmill (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
By David Roberts To me the most striking element of McCain's just-released carbon cap-and-trade plan is that it would, at least at the outset, allow regulated entities to achieve 100 percent of their emission reductions through the purchase of domestic or international offsets. By way of comparison, the Lieberman-Warner climate bill headed for the floor of the Senate caps the contribution...
Climate Resistance (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Over at the Daily Kos , and European Tribune , blogger 'Johnnyrook' attempts to connect 'denialism' with an ideology. The piece itself is an answer to a blog post elsewhere by Joseph Romm, The denialists are winning, especially with the GOP . David Roberts tried this approach on the Nation blog back in February: Long-time greens are painfully aware that the arguments of global warming...
Cornish Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Darren Cudby added 64 for the first wicket with David Roberts. Then a second wicket partnership of 134 between Roberts and Neil Curnow (54) just about decided the game there and then.Roberts went on to hit 127 before being out in the penultimate over. It came off 139 balls and included 2 sixes and 11 fours in the total of 256 for five. In the context of the game Tom Brooks...
Gristmill (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
By David Roberts Here is the schedule of targets John McCain has proposed for his cap-and-trade program: 2012: Return emissions to 2005 levels (18 percent above 1990 levels) 2020: Return emissions to 1990 levels (15 percent below 2005 levels) 2030: 22 percent below 1990 levels (34 percent below 2005 levels) 2050: 60 percent below 1990 levels (66 percent below 2005 levels) The two things...
Phronesisaical (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
It's difficult to see much here at this point, and the candidate has a spotty record on environmental issues, but David Roberts gives McCain's plan the run-down .
Gristmill (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
By David Roberts On Monday, John McCain will deliver a speech on climate change from a wind turbine factory in Portland, Oregon. In it he will lay out the framework for climate policy under a McCain administration. After a primary spent shoring up his credentials among the Republican base, this is the beginning of his general election strategy: Operation I'm Not Bush. (One important...
Gristmill (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
By David Roberts Though the nation's pundits have decided that the primary race is over , someone failed to get Clinton the memo -- she is determined to stay in to the bitter end . The next primaries are in West Virginia and Kentucky, states where the number of poor whites is high and consequently the Obama campaign expects to get crushed ; there's a good chance that even if Clinton...
warming (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Cities Deliver an Energy Smackdown! and More State Climate News –We wish we’d had more time to blog about Juliet Eilperin's excellent feature story from last Sunday's Washington Post, which documented state and local efforts to tie growth efforts to mitigating global warming impacts. David Roberts wonders why presidential candidates don't mention these ambitious efforts [...]
NDN (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
... Democrats as he hunts for the middle that he will need to win in November. McCain's plan, which David Roberts at Grist calls "better than expected but behind the curve," is part of an important moment in American politics, as it means that the next president will surely do something about Climate Change. It is important to remember, however, that the something on climate all the candidates...
