Because the long shadow of “Climategate” and a two-week climate confab in Denmark just weren’t enough grist for the mill, now there’s this: The decade beginning in 2000—the “naughties”?—is the hottest on record, according to the U.K. Meteorological Office
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Will President Obama’s offer of a 17% reduction in U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions by 2020 be enough to break the impasse at the Copenhagen climate summit? Maybe Will President Obama’s offer of a 17% reduction in U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions by 2020 be enough to break the impasse at the Copenhagen climate summit Green jobs are still a big part of the Obama administration’s plan to jumpstart job creation. In this morning’s big jobs speech, President Obama outlined three main ways Washington can get people back to work: helping small business get more credit so as to hire more people; beefing up investment in infrastructure such as rail, roads, and bridges, and ramping up government support for energy efficiency and clean energy. Specifically, the President asked Congress to “provide rebates for consumers who make energy efficiency retrofits,” which in theory would provide a double-whammy of providing jobs and saving consumers money by sealing up leaky houses. Enter The Daily Green sweepstakes! 5 lucky winners will win a copy of The Green Beauty Guide . Enter The Daily Green sweepstakes! 5 lucky winners will win skinsaver masque from Petite Marie Organics. Most of the talk about “Climategate,” the affair over hacked or stolen emails and other documents from a British climate-change research center, has focused on the fallout. There’s been talk of what it will mean for the Copenhagen climate talks, U.S There are only 5 2010 cars that both get better than 30 mpg and cost less than $15,000. This post was originally published at our fellow WSJ site, the China Real Time Report Jing Yang reports: China has lots at stake if Copenhagen climate change talks don’t come up with a comprehensive green energy package, including financing for two potentially huge growth areas–solar power and carbon capture. Its recent announcement on cutting carbon intensity , while falling short of binding greenhouse gas emissions caps demanded by some countries, shows China is ready to play a central role in the climate summit that started this week Planting in a bag can take some of the back-breaking work out of gardening |
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