UPDATE:

SCIENCE IS EASY TO SEE FOR EVERYONE INCLUDING DENIERS:

Obama Executive Authority = 20% carbon emissions cut from coal-fired power plants over 6 years = Regulations written by EPA to tackle climate change = Implements Romney’s Cap-and-trade policy = Sets a national limit on carbon pollution from coal plants but each state can do it their way.

Obama intends “to make sure America is out front in putting together a global framework to preserve our planet.”

Options = Cut emissions using carbon capture + Use more wind and solar power + energy-efficiency technology + State cap-and-trade markets for buying and selling government-issued pollution permits. = A POTENTIAL DERIVATIVES SCAM. = “This EPA regulation will breathe life into state-level cap-and-trade programs.” — Peter Shattuck, of a Boston climate policy advocacy and research organization.

States = Considers nation’s two existing state-level cap-and-trade plans by Romney + Gina McCarthy = now in EPA = Offer an affordable and flexible way to comply with the new regulation. = “By trading on carbon credits, we’ll be able to achieve significantly more cuts at a lower cost.” — Anthony J. Alexander, FirstEnergy

John McManus, VP at American Electric Power = “We view cap and trade as having a lot of benefits….It could keep the cost down…to keep coal units running for a more extended period. There are a lot of advantages.”

Cap and trade = The cap is ratchet down pollution each year + Market will supposedly drive up the price of permits. = Supposedly creating an incentive for industries to invest in lower-polluting sources of energy.

States may join the northeastern CAP-AND-TRADE program already designed and tested. = “plug and play.” = The regional program has proved fairly effective = 40% drop in 9 states + States raised $1.6 billion in new revenue. = Christie of NJ has withdrawn from it and says it is useless.

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FAIR AND SQUARE CLIMATE DEBATE:

Florida Underwater + ADD HURRICANES

BROTHERS PROVIDE BASIS FOR NEW CLIMATE CHANGE REGULATIONS FOR COAL POWER

Click for NYT Source Article by Coral Davenport

William Nordhaus, 72, Yale Economist = Created idea of a Carbon Tax and Model for pricing climate change = A leading contender for a Nobel Prize

“We’re uncertain about the effects of climate change the way we’re uncertain that smoking causes cancer.” — William Nordhaus, Yale Economist

Bob Nordhaus, 77, Washington energy lawyer wrote provision in 1970 Clean Air Act = Now legal basis for landmark regulation of coal-fired power plants = Obama’s environmental legacy. = called Dynamic Integrated Climate-Economy model (DICE)

Robert and William Nordhaus = Brothers Battle Climate Change on Two Fronts

Nordhaus Brothers = Love New Mexico beautiful landscape + Economics of energy + Power of science = Family’s 50,000-acre sheep ranch

The Nordhaus brothers = Protect the earth with dispassionate scientific thinking and intellectual rigor = Work intertwined science and law = OPPOSITE OF KOCH BROTHERS GREED AT ALL COST!

The two believe that cutting carbon pollution is crucial to protecting the environment and the economy from the risks posed by climate change. = 99% of Scientists.

Optimal Solution = Carbon tax is far more effective and efficient than regulation.

Robert Nordhaus Sr. won a Supreme Court case giving Apache tribes the authority to levy fees on the oil companies that drilled on their native land.

Bob wrote Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act languishing in obscurity for decades = Now the legal rationale for Obama admin’s plan to regulate carbon emissions without a law passed by Congress = A powerful market effect + Best way to stave off the catastrophic impacts of a warming world. = 30+ countries passed carbon-pricing laws using DICE.

DICE = Models show that one ton of carbon pollution = $20 to $30 in economic damage X Global economy emits about 36 billion tons of carbon a year.

KOCH Conservative Heritage Foundation = Says DICE model “flawed beyond use for policy making” = “$Trillions of government policies and burdensome regulations.”

EPA = Justify the new regulation by showing the CARBON RULES economic benefits outweigh the costs.

New Mexico changed around Los Alamos = Weapons program expanded = Changed “from a pastoral economy, split between ranching, irrigated farming and extractive industries = To defense-related work with climate changes = Periodic droughts, that affected the family ski business and their lives outdoors.

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WOMEN = GREEN = MOST IMPACTED

Green Movement = Dominated By White Dudes = Teddy Roosevelt and John Muir just hanging out in Yosemite

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/05/white-men-run-big-environmental-organizations

97% OF SCIENTISTS say climate change happening in real time and it is Costly.

Corporate-backed disinformation campaigns by DIRTY FUEL LOBBY Continues its baseless MEDIA LIES.

White House released a landmark climate change report, underlining that “certain people and communities are especially vulnerable, including children, the elderly, the sick, the poor, and some communities of color.” = Developing world and rich countries alike.

Public opinion research in the US suggests women, Latinos, African-Americans, Asians and Native Americans are more concerned—and more directly affected—by climate change than other populations. But top of “Big Green” is as white and male as a Tea Party meet-up. = Trouble connecting with the public on climate change?

Greenpeace = Chose the well-known activist Annie Leonard as their president.

America is in the midst of a demographic transformation = By mid-century whites will no longer be the majority population.

Big Green had a once-in-a-generation chance to pass climate change legislation = Clubby, back-room negotiations with CEOs of oil and utility companies to get carbon cuts = Spectacular collapse.

Meanwhile, beyond Washington, and beyond the male-dominated preserves of Big Green, women activists are just getting on with the job—without that White House access or the expensive consultants paid for by the biggest of big donors.

BOLD NEBRASKA = Biggest victories for the environmental movement in recent years = Indefinite delay on the Keystone XL pipeline = A tiny environmental group led by President Jane Fleming Kleeb with just three paid staffers = Assembled an unlikely coalition of ranchers, Native Americans and other activists operating in one of the country’s most conservative states.

WOMEN = GREEN = MOST IMPACTED