Joe Romm, who has frequently challenged climate skeptics as the editor of the blog Climate Progress, expressed indignation over the reaction from climate skeptics.
It would have eliminated the ability of states, cities and regions to continue to experiment with the innovative programs that to date have been the source of all climate progress in the United States.
Given that coal use by China (and the sources of that coal) has to be at the center of any serious discussion of climate progress, it's worth reviewing some rich new contributions to the discussion I initiated on the ethical, economic and climatic issues that arise when coal flows from rich countries to fast-growing giants like China.
That's not to say the EU is a paragon of climate progress.
This will minimize the externalities, both here and abroad, of climate progress, and incentivize new industries and energy processes.
"It's like a 'Brownie, you're doing a heckuva job' moment, if Brownie had a 100-year history of wrecking the climate, derailing progress on clean energy, and funding phony science," said Daniel Kessler, a spokesman for environmental advocacy organization 350.org.
The simplistic view is that Republicans are not in favor of climate progress where Democrats are; I think that's not correct.
Ideological, right-wing opponents of climate progress and clean energy stayed more on message, releasing a poll purporting to show that the public, all the other evidence to the contrary, didn't really favor tougher clean-up of carbon pollution or California climate leadership after all.
Rather than reform this outdated model of trade that constrains climate progress, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a trade pact between the U.S. and 11 other Pacific Rim nations that could come before Congress this year, would expand the model.
Even though our understanding of the physical mechanisms of the climate system has progressed rapidly, the use of this knowledge to support transportation decision making, manage risks, and engage stakeholders is still inadequate [45, 48].
