In case you missed the News Hour last night, PBS reporter Ray Suarez (page includes audio link) sat down with Eileen Claussen of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change and got the ABCs of carbon cap and trade systems. Suarez asked good questions for this primer. It includes US context from the acid rain program. The Tracker confesses to missing it the first time himself — turned off the set when up came a segment on Don Imus and his dreary lapse into cultural, sociological idiocy. But, early this a.m., recalling that something about global warming was to have been aired too, self-same looked up the link and listened to the audio.
Other Greenhouse Coping News, NY Edition: The Bloomberg administration released figures for New York’s emissions which (weird context alert) equal, it says here, those of Portugal, or Ireland. Well, that clears the air on that. More important, the city’s per-capita emission are well below those of the nation as a whole. The aim is to cut them 30 percent more by 2030.
Stories: NY Times Diane Cardwell gives it a balanced, useful rundown; AP Sara Kugler writes it short. She fails to put in the important aspect that the city — not a major manufacturing center and reliant largely on public transportation — is hardly among the nation’s worst climate changers; NY Newsday Emi Endo gets the major points in.
Other GH News, IPCC-US Edition: The news flow continues from the world’s leading clearing house for sound (in its proper sense) science on climate change.
Stories:
AP Edith M. Lederer reports on where, says the IPCC, regional climate impacts will be most dramatic in the US. Storm surges in NY and Boston, heat waves in LA and Chicago…; Boston Globe Alan Wirzbicki reports Newt Gingrich has dropped his global warming skepticism; LATimes Adam Schreck similarly reports Gingrich’s tinge of (market-based) green in a debate with John Kerry;
Other Idiot-Imus News: OK, in the spirit of free association and as long as the topic came up if only in distress, here’s a readable take from columnist Gregory Kane at the Balt. Sun.
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