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Comment on Tom Friedman Column: Support Carbon Fee and Dividend
Message below submitted as comment on Tom Friedman column in NY Times on 09-07-14. Tom: Thank you for another excellent column. You have advocated a carbon tax for many years, and this is supported by many other respected people, like … Continue reading
An Economist Argues for a Carbon Tax
The article below was published in the New York Times on September 1, 2013. The author is the economist I quoted in my post The World We Leave for Our Children here on July 26. Below he elaborates on the merits of a carbon … Continue reading
The World We Leave for Our Children / Need for Carbon Fee-and-Dividend
The letter below was submitted for publication in the Benardsville News on July 26, 2013. It was published in the print edition on August 8 and is published on line here. A New York Times op-ed published on August 1 … Continue reading
Carbon Fee-and-Dividend; Best Way to Reduce Use of Fossil Fuels
The post below was intended to be a comment on a Tom Friedman column in the New York Times on 03-17-13. Comments were closed before it was finished and it was not submitted. I am posting it here to generate comments and to be … Continue reading
$80 solar power system in rural Kenya
In yesterday’s New York Times, Elisabeth Rosenthal, reports on getting electricity to a farming village far from Kenya’s electric grid. For Sara Ruto, the desperate yearning for electricity began last year with the purchase of her first cellphone, a lifeline … Continue reading
Great "New Yorker" story on the failed energy bill
In the October 11, 2010 The New Yorker, Ryan Lizza, reports: “As the World Burns: How the Senate and the White House missed their best chance to deal with climate change.” I’ll quote from it extensively, but if you don’t … Continue reading
Senator Robert Menendez Supports EPA Authority to Control CO2
I received a notice from EDF that Senator Jay Rockefeller had introduced legislation to curtail authority that EPA now has to regulate emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases. I sent email messages to Senators Lautenberg and Menendez with the … Continue reading
Senator Menendez on Climate and Energy
The letter below from Senator Robert Menendez is a response to a letter that I sent him on June 28 and posted with that date. His letter is dated July 16, and I received it on August 23. The positions Senator Menendez articulates in his letter are excellent overall. I have put some … Continue reading
Why OFF by 2050?
I’m old enough to remember when John Kennedy inspired the nation in 1961 and called for a program to land a man on the moon and bring him back safely to earth “before this decade is out.” Neither he nor … Continue reading
In Crackdown on Energy Use, China to Shut 2,000 Factories
Above is the lead headline in the New York Times today. Reporting from Hong Kong, journalist Keith Bradsher begins: “Earlier this summer, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao of China promised to use an “iron hand” to improve his country’s energy efficiency, … Continue reading