guardian.co.uk - 3/10/2009
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Paying drivers to scrap their old cars and buy new ones will do nothing to catalyse a low-carbon transport revolution The magic numbers spin before our eyes. No one can grasp the scale of the handouts, or understand how public money that didn't exist - could never exist - for hospitals or ...
westcoastclimateequity.org - 3/17/2009
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Message from Copenhagen Climate Science Congress: For many
key parameters, the climate system is already moving beyond...
the patterns of natural variability within which our society and economy have developed and thrived. These parameters include global ...
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Risk of extreme climate change accelerating
guardian.co.uk - 3/4/2009
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Car makers may be in trouble, but that's
not stopping them rolling out new green ideas at...
the Geneva Motor Show, writes motoring journalist Richard Aucock 1. GM hasn't killed the electric car In 2006, a documentary film Called Who Killed the ...
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Ten big green ideas from the Geneva Motor Show
gristmill.grist.org - 3/10/2009
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E&E Daily reports ($ub. req'd) today on efforts
in the House to try and determine how to...
minimize the economic pain of CO2 pricing. They note: Government studies conclude that for a new U.S. climate law to work, it must stem the demand for ...
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The carbon-pricing bogeyman: not real | Gristmill: The ...
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United Kingdom & Europe - March 10
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... . Monbiot: This scam is nothing but a handout for motor companies, resprayed green George Monbiot, Guardian Paying drivers to scrap their old cars and buy new ones will do nothing to catalyse a low-carbon transport revolution --- ... prepare yourselves, ladies and gentlemen, for the worst scam of all. It's another reward for failure, but this one offers no prospect of rescuing the economy. Thanks to its cunning disguise as an environmental measure, we seem willing to be conned. I want to show you why we should resist it. I'm talking about the scrappage payments being ...
Quote of the Day: George Monbiot on Handouts Resprayed Green
TreeHugger —
... the industry for its own sake. It is hard to think of a less deserving cause. The motor companies have repeatedly failed to anticipate trends in demand. They have carried on producing thunderous gas guzzlers long after the market collapsed. Every so often the bosses wring their hands about jobs, put out the begging bowl, get the money, then shaft their workers anyway. Like the bankers, they have wrecked their own industry. And like the bankers, they want the rest of us to pay. More in the Guardian More Monbiot: ...
The car industry should fool no one with its "green" incentive scam
BusinessGreen Blog —
... The environmental campaigner George Monbiot has already delivered a comprehensive evisceration of the flawed logic behind the scheme, but it is really worth highlighting again quite how ridiculous it is from an environmental perspective. These proposals are the worst type of "greenwash": misleading, opportunistic and capable of blocking genuinely green proposals. ...
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