SPECIAL REPORT-The California Carbon Rush (Hold the Eureka!) It could be worse than sticky, argues Gary Stern, a power utility executive. Stern lived through the disastrous deregulation of the California…
Category: Carbon credits
The "next big thing": a carbon swap bank
Via Eurekalert: Carbon swap bank to beat climate change Could swapping carbon emissions rather than trading them reduce climate change? Australian researchers have suggested that nations should abandon the concept…
Kyoto Protocol: Bad Science = Bad Policy
Guest Post by Ruth Bonnett As early as 1969, writings by Ayn Rand – philosopher and novelist – sounded the alarm bells on the environmentalist movement and the potential impact…
New Hampshire to Consider Withdrawing from RGGI
RGGI is the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, created by a group of ten northeastern states. RGGI runs a carbon trading scheme with the primary goal to reduce CO₂ emissions. Permits…
Chicago Climate Exchange = FAIL, Now California opens "Pacific Carbon Exchange"
UPDATE: related story shows what can happen when emissions trading doesn’t have proper checks and balances – Carbon trading tempts firms to make greenhouse gas California hasn’t learned from the…
Exposed: A $7-billion carbon scam
Here’s more clear evidence that the Carbon Trading industry is doomed. Not only has carbon trading been halted in the USA due to lack of a market and ludicrously low…
Public carbon trading dead in the USA
Gore’s grand experiment has flatlined. As we reported almost two weeks ago, the Gore and Pachauri advised Chicago Carbon Exchange (CCX) has closed. Closing price? A nickel per ton of…
US Carbon trading – not worth a plug nickel
I wrote a few weeks ago that The only lower price than today’s closing price on a ton of carbon is ZERO. That’s true now more than ever. See the…
Cancel all your European travel and vacation plans – carbon trading extortion is here
This is idiotic. The EU carbon trading cabal has decided to extort the rest of the air travel world starting in 2012. In a nutshell, they’ll ban flights from landing…
My town's "Climate Action Plan"
The town I live in, Chico, CA is sometimes known as “Berkeley North” due to the liberal influence of Chico State University (CSUC). In this case, CSUC’s sustainability cabal, led…
Chicago Climate Exchange drops 50%, new record low
The only lower price than today’s closing price on a ton of carbon is ZERO Perhaps reacting to the news yesterday about the IPCC getting taken to the woodshed, the…
EPA fines Tesla Electric Motors $275,000 for non-compliance
In bureaucracy, truth is often stranger than fiction. A non polluting electric car company gets slammed with fine for “non compliance” for a car that can’t produce any emissions. That’s…
Nothing runs like a Deere – company bails on cap and trade
By Bob Tita Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES CHICAGO -(Dow Jones)- Deere & Co. (DE) has quietly dropped out of a coalition of large companies that has supported a cap-and-trade program…
The biggest environmental scandal in history
A UN board could rein in $2.7 billion carbon market to prevent the double dipping of CFC manufacturing incentives and carbon credit sales, as discovered to be happening in China.…
Chicago Climate Exchange still flatlining – employee cuts
From the “unsustainable business” department, who wants carbon at 10 cents a ton? Apparently, nobody. Data below as of August 8 2010: Source: http://www.chicagoclimatex.com/market/data/summary.jsf From Reuters, news of layoffs. At…
Green -vs- Green: Eu Climate Exchange website hacked
NOTE: See updates below, it appears a green group, Climate Justice Action claims responsibility and apparently attacked ECX.eu in a tiff over carbon credit policy. The Independent Media Centre of…
New Zealand's Prime Minister: Climate Change bill a "load of rubbish" and "hoax"
Via Andrew Bolt in email, some surprising revelations about New Zealand’s Prime minister and his previous opinion of the ETS. It appears he has done a complete about face from…
New Zealand begins emissions trading scheme, meanwhile the Gore/Pachauri Chicago Climate Exchange is flatlining
The months of flatlining at the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) should be a hint to the rest of the world that carbon trading is dead. Time to take it off…
What Australian Media is saying about Rudd, Gillard, and ETS – which looks dead for now
Via the GWPF and Dr. Benny Peiser – here is a summary of articles discussing the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) future in Australian politics. ETS looks “deader ‘n a doornail”…
Whale poop fights global warming
Click here to watch the video..NOT From the Sydney Herald Southern Ocean sperm whales are an unexpected ally in the fight against global warming, removing the equivalent carbon emissions from…
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