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Posted: 04 Mar 2010 10:11:31
California Air Resources Board News Clips for March 4, 2010. This is a service of the California Air Resources Board’s Office of Communications. You may need to sign in or register with individual websites to view some of the following news articles. What Should Schools Teach About Global Warming? The teaching of climate change is under attack in some U.S. public schools. This week, South Dakota's legislature passed a resolution calling for the "balanced teaching of global warming." "Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant but rather a highly beneficial ingredient for all plant life," says the resolution, which passed with mostly GOP votes. It also says global warming is "a scientific theory rather than a proven fact" and a variety of "astrological" and other "dynamics" affect weather. Posted. http://content.usatoday.com/communities/greenhouse/post/2010/03/what-should-schools-teach-about-global-warming/1 A Proposal To Search The Past For Adaptation Clues. Research on climate change today focuses mostly on the future, taking stock of how humans have influenced the planet and using computer models to project unwanted changes like warming temperatures or rising seas and ways we might avoid them. But a new report suggests that there's value in looking at not just how humans shape the climate, but how the climate shaped human development going back millions of years. "How we get here is relevant to where we are going as a species," says the analysis released yesterday by the National Academy of Sciences. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/03/04/2 Administration Panel Attaches Price Tags To Carbon Emissions. An Obama administration work group has settled on a broad spectrum of costs to society for allowing each new ton of carbon to be emitted into the atmosphere. It includes four dollar figures -- spanning from $5 to $65 for emissions in 2010 -- that represent the damages of not acting to stop those emissions. The numbers are set to inform a batch of future regulations: both climate and energy policies meant to lower greenhouse gas levels and other regulations that only have that side effect. The latter category could include plans to slash power plant emissions of other harmful air pollutants, for example. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/03/04/4 Carbon Market Players' Hope For U.S. Cap And Trade Sinks – Survey. Amsterdam -- The expectations of carbon market participants and experts that the United States would set up a cap-and-trade CO2 system by 2015 have fallen to a three-year low, a survey released at a conference here yesterday showed. Only 61 percent of the respondents in the survey by carbon market analysis firm Point Carbon said they believed the United States will have a cap-and-trade system by that year, down 20 percentage points from 2009. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/03/04/5 Canada Opens Session With Promise Of Jobs And 'Balanced' Climate Action. Canada opened a new session of Parliament yesterday with a Speech from the Throne that mentioned climate change after a long list of other issues, ranging from expelling hidden war criminals to enhancing oil production. The most punctuated message, however, centered on creating jobs, with the Queen's Canadian liaison, Governor General Michaelle Jean, recognizing that "unemployment continues to cast a long shadow" over the economic recovery. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/03/04/7 Draft Climate Bill Has No Industry Emissions Limits. A draft of a new Japanese climate bill does not include a limit on emissions by industry, signaling that the government may not go through with a promise to start a cap-and-trade system. The draft released by the Environment Ministry last month does not propose a mandatory emissions cap, nor does it specify what industries would be subject to a carbon tax starting in 2011. Japan does plan to start an emissions trading program, though there is no timeline for it. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/03/04/9 Focus On Clean Air, Not Climate, Ex-EPA Chief Whitman Says. Advocates of capping carbon emissions would fare better politically by framing their concerns in terms of energy needs and clean air rather than sounding off with warnings about climate change, a former U.S. EPA administrator said Tuesday. Christine Todd Whitman, EPA administrator from 2001 to 2003 and the Republican governor of New Jersey before that, said that global warming has become so "politically fraught" that it is no longer a useful point to bring up for those who seek to cap carbon emissions. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/03/04/10 Texas-Based Refiners Pledge To Fund Fight Against California's Global Warming Law. Valero and Tesoro have reportedly pledged as much as $2 million to help gather signatures for a ballot initiative to suspend the greenhouse-gas-cutting law until the jobless rate improves. Two Texas-based refinery giants have pledged as much as $2 million to fund signature gathering for a ballot initiative to suspend California's landmark global warming law, according to Sacramento sources. Posted. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-climate-ballot4-2010mar04,0,7939184.story http://www.fresnobee.com/2010/03/03/1845386/texans-fight-california-pollution.html http://www.camajorityreport.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&aid=4167&ptid=9 http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/03/03/03climatewire-texas-refiners-mum-about-funding-push-to-hal-73127.html http://www.triplepundit.com/2010/03/tesoro-valero-ab32/ http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/33069 http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/snog/blogs/post?oid=1380612 http://www.newsreview.com/chico/content?oid=1380661 http://vvandermeer.freedomblogging.com/2010/03/03/logue-getting-boost-from-texas-for-ballot-initiative/491/ Author Cites Food Production As Villain In Climate Change. The main culprit causing climate change isn't the Hummer; it's the hamburger. That's the message Anna Lappé, the author of "Diet for a Hot Planet," presented last week to a crowd of more than 100 regional gardeners and foodies at the annual Green Matters Symposium at Brookside Gardens in Wheaton, which zeroes in on pressing environmental issues. Posted. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/03/AR2010030302065.html Air Quality Board Will Discuss Port Pollution in Long Beach on Friday. The region's top air-quality board will meet Friday in Long Beach to discuss, among other things, port anti-pollution measures. The hearing begins at 9 a.m. at Long Beach City Hall, 333 W. Ocean Blvd., where the South Coast Air Quality Management District Governing Board will host its monthly forum. Posted. http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_14507640 Dirty Air Boosts Hospitalizations. California's dirty air cost more than $193 million in hospital-based medical care from 2005 to 2007, as people sought help for conditions such as asthma and pneumonia that were triggered by elevated pollution levels. Researchers at the RAND Corporation estimated that exposure to excessive levels of ozone and particulate pollution caused nearly 30,000 emergency room visits and hospital admissions over the study period. Posted. http://www.cbs42.com/content/health/story/Dirty-Air-Boosts-Hospitalizations/fs9oIL3XhEC_DMHcvkCgQw.cspx Pacific Partners With Community To Pinpoint Green Goals. It was fitting that the latest forum in University of the Pacific's Beyond Our Gates series on Wednesday focused on the environment. After all, you don't have stray far off campus to understand the challenges. Pacific is the only four-year college within the legal boundaries of the fragile Delta. And it's located in the San Joaquin Valley, where air pollution settles thickly between the mountains. Posted. http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100304/A_NEWS/3040325/-1/NEWSMAP Will U.S. Companies Be Shut Out of Clean-Tech Markets by China and Other Competitors? The United States must make long-term investments in clean energy development or risk being shut out of a $2.3 trillion industry, a new report by a liberal think tank has found. The study (pdf) released today by the Center for American Progress hails Germany, Spain and China as "early winners in the next great technological and industrial revolution" because each imposed policies to encourage low-carbon energy development. Posted. http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/03/04/04climatewire-will-us-companies-be-shut-out-of-clean-tech-68154.html Graham's Cap-And-Trade Pronouncement Reframes Hill Debate. Is cap and trade really "dead"? After all, didn't Sen. Lindsey Graham say so? The South Carolina Republican's recent remarks -- or snippets of them -- have ricocheted around Capitol Hill and beyond in recent weeks, lending momentum to the notion that the congressional effort he is helping lead no longer plans to implement a system that requires companies to buy and sell emission credits. Posted. http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/03/03/03greenwire-grahams-cap-and-trade-pronouncement-reframes-h-19532.html County Shelves Solar Project. Solano County leaders have put a hold -- for now -- on a planned $1 million solar project in Fairfield. The Board of Supervisors pulled from Tuesday's agenda a proposal to use $1.45 million from a heating and ventilation fund to pay for the project. "We have several concerns," Supervisor John Vasquez said after the meeting. "We're definitely concerned with the cost." Staffers recommended a transfer of funding from a heating and air-conditioning project at the county's Law and Justice Center -- the county jail in downtown Fairfield -- to pay for a 261-kilowatt solar array parking shade structure. Posted. http://www.timesheraldonline.com/news/ci_14510692 California Drops 'Carbon Credits for Clearcuts'. California has withdrawn its carbon credit accounting protocols that counted clearing all life off of 40 acres at a time a good thing. The protocols, which the Center for Biological Diversity called "Carbon Credits for Clearcuts," were discarded in response to a letter from the environmental group, complaining that the policy violated the California Environmental Quality Act. Posted. http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/03/04/25251.htm Discrediting Climate Change. Dear editor, for those of us who doubt the theory of manmade global climate change, there is a new resource to be aware of. It is a series of videos created by John Coleman, founder of the Weather Channel. It can be seen at www.kusi.com/weather/co1emanscorner/8153352.html. Despite this discrediting of the global warming theory — which we are told is an established scientific fact — it is unlikely that the United States will respond any differently. Entrenched economic and political interests have invested trillions of dollars in the global warming farce. Posted. http://www.napavalleyregister.com/news/opinion/mailbag/article_d548da6c-273d-11df-a3cb-001cc4c03286.html Will U.S. Companies Be Shut Out Of Clean-Tech Markets By China And Other Competitors? The United States must make long-term investments in clean energy development or risk being shut out of a $2.3 trillion industry, a new report by a liberal think tank has found. The study released today by the Center for American Progress hails Germany, Spain and China as "early winners in the next great technological and industrial revolution" because each imposed policies to encourage low-carbon energy development. Japan, Denmark and South Korea, the authors predict, also will profit handsomely as the industry expands. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/03/04/1 Wood-Fire Snitching Way Up This Season. Complaints by Bay Area residents about neighbors lighting wood fires on no-burn nights rose 63 percent in the second season of a smoke rule, regional clean air regulators reported Wednesday. The number of people issued letters for suspected violations showed a more modest increase of 22 percent, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District said in a report. Posted. http://www.fresnobee.com/2010/03/03/1845293/complaints-about-wood-fires-on.html Marin Again Leads Bay Area In Bad-Air Complaints And Warnings. Marin once again led Bay Area counties in both the number of complaints received and warning letters issued regarding wood smoke on "Spare the Air" winter days, according to data released Wednesday by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District. Posted. http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_14507569?nclick_check=1 Farmers Need More Government Support To Use Methane Digesters, Report Says. San Francisco -- Farmers may be susceptible to the water, temperature and seasonal changes posed by climate change, but they can take steps to reduce their own greenhouse gas emissions, says a new report from University of California researchers. The report, by law professors at the UC Berkeley and UC Los Angeles campuses, was sponsored by Bank of America. The company has funded three reports so far on how climate change could create business opportunities. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/03/04/8 Automakers Roll Out Hybrids, But Motivations Remain Unclear. More automakers are placing their bets on the future of hybrid cars, with a stream of new model announcements at this year's Geneva Auto Show. Porsche opened the show this week with a hybrid version of the Cayenne S sport utility vehicle, followed by French group PSA Peugeot Citroen SA's announcement of a hybrid launch in 2012. Toyota also announced plans to have a hybrid in every model by 2020. That has left some in the industry wondering if automakers were just capitalizing on the trend. Posted. http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/03/04/11 Eight Steps To A More Eco-Friendly Kitchen. Once upon a time, 30 or 40 years ago, the words "green kitchen" meant that your kitchen looked like the inside of an avocado. Now (thankfully) those words mean something quite different. Posted. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/02/AR2010030202932.html