California Global Warming Law May Lead To Job Losses, Report Says
Wednesday, 10 March 2010 07:19
Margot Roosevelt, Los Angeles Times
Debate over the economic effects of California's first-in-the-nation global warming law flared this week, with a report saying short-term job losses can be expected. The state's nonpartisan legislative analyst's office examined 2008 economic modeling by the California Air Resources Board and concluded that it "may overstate the number of jobs"...
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Sunil Sharan: The Green Jobs Myth
Tuesday, 02 March 2010 13:27
Sunil Sharan, The Washington Post
"Green jobs" have become a central underpinning of the Obama administration's rationale to promote clean energy. But how valid is the assumption that a "clean-energy" economy will generate enough jobs to mitigate today's high level of unemployment -- new jobless claims were up 22,000 this week -- and to meet the needs of future generations? A...
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New Study: Global Warming Unlikely To Seriously Affect Poor People In Developing Nations
Monday, 22 February 2010 18:35
Lewis Page, The Register
Agricultural brainboxes at Stanford University say that global warming isn't likely to seriously affect poor people in developing nations, who make up so much of the human race. Under some scenarios, poor farmers "could be lifted out of poverty quite considerably," according to new research.
David Lobell, an agri-boffin at the Stanford Program...
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Pachauri's Methods
Sunday, 07 February 2010 09:07
Robert Mendick and Amrit Dhillon, The Sunday Telegraph
The Energy and Resources Institute (Teri), of which Dr Rajendra Pachauri is the director-general, has given corporate awards to companies such as Pepsi and Honda, as well as Indian businesses. Those same companies have given financial backing to Teri through grants or paid-for consultancy work.
According to Teri’s own website, Dr Pachauri...
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Climate Clash in Midwest Could Trigger Carbon War
Tuesday, 12 January 2010 20:04
Eva Lehman, ClimateWire
Climate change may have sparked its first border war. Two states are in early maneuvers for a potential legal battle over one's effort to curtail carbon and another's aspiration to become an energy "powerhouse."
Those divergent designs have driven coal-rich North Dakota to threaten Minnesota with a lawsuit that could rise to the Supreme Court...
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