The Death of Cap and Trade
March 2nd, 2010
Key U.S. Senators say cap and trade is dead. So what’s on deck now for climate bills in the Congress? Host Daphne Wysham speaks to Ben Schreiber, the climate and energy tax analyst for the Friends of the Earth.
Climate deniers’ campaigns against action and their harassment of climate scientists is now taking a dangerous turn. Susan Joy Hassol, the director of the company Climate Communication and Melanie Fitzpatrick, a climate scientist with the Union of Concerned Scientists discuss the intimidation.
Then, we hear about a worker-owned clean energy revolution that’s taking place in all places – Cleveland. Ted Howard discusses ‘The Cleveland Model.’ Ted is the executive director of The Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland.
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March 5th, 2010 at 5:06 pm
Maybe you could explain what I’m supposed to believe. The IPCC is lying about nuclear power when they say it is as low carbon as renewables in the AR4, or, the Friends of the Earth guy you had on this show is lying about nuclear power when he says it is part of the climate change problem?
Did Obama announce a loan guarantee program which operates like an insurance scheme where premiums are collected from the utility companies building the nuke plants and only pays out if the utility goes broke? Or, did they just hand out the money as your Friends of the Earth said?
Its hard to keep things straight what with all the lies everyone is telling.
Its a good thing we don’t have a civilization threatening problem to deal with here otherwise all this BS you are peddling might matter.