Category: Carbon Tax

• “Allocating a 2° C cumulative carbon budget to countries”: Gignac and Matthews

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  Aug 10.2015
• The United States Clean Power Plan … It’s time.

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  Aug 2.2015
• Professor James Hansen responds and explains:

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  Jul 27.2015
• Welcome to the Hyper-Anthropocene

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  Jul 23.2015
• Spectra Energy (and others) Plan to Expand Pipeline to Feed Gas to DownEast LNG (Maine) for Export! – Natural Gas Watch.org

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  Jul 22.2015
• References Regarding the 450 ppm CO2 Ceiling

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  Jul 22.2015
• disruption to global electricity production during the next 25 years

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  Jul 13.2015
• Climate Justice

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  Jul 2.2015
• Bill Nye on BIG THINK: Fracking, renewable energy storage, and climate deniers

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  Jun 30.2015
• Why decentralized electrical power has to win, no matter what Elon Musk says, and utilities are doomed

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  Jun 16.2015
• “Time to take out the trash”

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  Jun 15.2015
• One year, and ten years of carbon dioxide concentration readings, Mauna Loa

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  Jun 14.2015
• “How mankind blew the fight against climate change” (Bill McKibben)

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  Jun 6.2015
• “All large oil companies now use a shadow price of carbon”

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  Jun 1.2015
• “Clean burnin’ natural gas …”

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  May 20.2015
• “el Niño and the Non-Spherical Cow”

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  May 13.2015
• Eli Rabett on the APS “Draft Statement on Earth’s Changing Climate”

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  Apr 21.2015
• The ShoutROC action on the climate rally, Concord, MA, 19th April 2015.

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  Apr 20.2015
• We are trying. And the bitterest result is to have so-called colleagues align themselves with the Koch brothers

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  Apr 3.2015
• Scary Stuff; a Potential Nasty Surprise

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  Mar 24.2015
• “Human activity has nothing big enough to affect Earth”

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  Mar 14.2015
• “Barking mad”

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  Feb 10.2015
• The B-Team

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  Feb 6.2015
• The designers of our climate

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  Jan 27.2015
• Codium fragile, for Saturday, 17th January 2015

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  Jan 17.2015
• US$60/ton of Carbon

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  Jan 16.2015
• Hestia: A glimpse at greenhouse gas emissions enforcement

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  Jan 13.2015
• “Atmospheric lifetime of fossil fuel carbon dioxide” (2009)

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  Jan 6.2015
• Notes on distributed generation of electricity and stability of microgrids

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  Jan 5.2015
• More on ice sheets and 400 ppm CO2

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  Jan 4.2015