September 17, Lincoln
September 26-27, Lincoln
The Most Dangerous Place on the Face of the Earth
Updates on Nebraska's tiny reservation border town.
Impeachment is on the table.
By Paul Olson, NFP President
By Professor Bruce E. Johansen
Omaha NFP Newsletter
An Injury to One is an Injury to All…
Right-Wing Punditry & Green Cheese Science
Hansen: Cut CO2 10 Percent in 10 Years
Global Warming Is Alive
and WellThe Skiing Industry Faces a Future with Less Snow
‘Swiftboating’ Geophysical Reality
Bjorn Lomborg’s Warm, Fuzzy World
The Inuit Hold George W. Bush Responsible for Their Melting Ice World
Global Warming, “Thermal Inertia” & Tomorrow’s News
The Carbon Footprint of the Iraq War
Making A Buck As The World Burns
Life After Oil
What's HOT In Global Warming? Ethanol, Polar Bears, Dogs & Phytoplankton
Al Gore's Plan
The Lessons of Mild Winter Nights
‘Doomsday Clock’ Creeps Closer to Midnight
What's HOT In Global Warming?
Al Gore's Ten-Point Plan
algore.org
Former Vice President — and Academy Award winner — Al Gore presented the following ten-point ‘blueprint’ on combating global warming to Congress on March 21, 2007
1. Immediately freeze carbon at the existing level; then implement programs to reduce it 90 percent by 2050.
2. Reduce taxes on employment and production, instead taxing pollution (especially CO2). These pollution taxes would raise the same amount of money, but make us more competitive by encouraging employment while discouraging pollution.
3. A portion of the revenues must be earmarked for low-income and middle-class people who will have a difficult time making this transition.
4. Negotiate a strong global treaty to replace Kyoto, while working toward de facto compliance with Kyoto. Move the start date of this new treaty forward from 2012 to 2010, so the next president can start to act immediately, rather than wasting time trying to pass Kyoto right before it expires. We have to try to get China and India to participate in the treaty. If they don’t immediately participate, we have to move forward with the treaty regardless, trusting that they will join sooner rather than later.
5. Impose a moratorium on construction of any new coal-fired power plant not compatible with carbon capture and sequestration.
6. Develop an “electranet” — a smart grid that allows individual homeowners and small businesses to create green power and sell their excess power to the utility companies at a fair price. Just as widely distributed information processing led to a large new surge of productivity, we need a law that allows widely distributed energy generation to be sold into the grid, at a rate determined not by the utility companies, but by regulation. The goal is to create a grid that does not require huge, centralized power plants.
7. Raise CAFE standards for cars and trucks as part of a comprehensive package. Cars and trucks are a large part of the problem, but coal and buildings must be addressed at the same time.
8. Set a date for the ban of incandescent light bulbs that gives industry time to create alternatives. If the date is set, industry will meet this challenge.
9. Create Connie Mae, a carbon-neutral mortgage association. Connie Mae will defer the costs of things like insulation and energy-efficient windows that cut carbon but are often not used by builders or renovators because they add to the upfront costs of homes, only paying for themselves after several years of energy savings.
10. The Securities and Exchange Commission should require disclosure of carbon emissions in corporate reporting.
