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China Hopeful About Copenhagen Climate Talks. Beijing, China --
China wants to increase cooperation with the U.S. and other
nations to reach a deal at global climate talks in December, Vice
Premier Li Keqiang said Thursday. Li's comments come less than
two months ahead of the global climate conference in Copenhagen,
Denmark, that seeks an international agreement on a treaty to cut
greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. Posted.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/10/22/international/i044606D69.DTL&type=printable
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/23/world/asia/23china.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print

Britain Publishes Doomsday Climate Change Vision. London (AP) --
Two British Cabinet ministers showed off a doomsday vision of
disappearing cities and rising seas on Thursday, part of an
effort to push nations to strike a new pact on curbing emissions
of global warming gasses. Foreign Secretary David Miliband and
his brother, Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband,
published an online map detailing the predicted impact of a 4
degrees Celsius (7 degrees Fahrenheit) rise in global
temperatures. Posted.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/10/22/world/AP-EU-Britain-Climate-Map.html?sq=climate%20change&st=cse&scp=3&pagewanted=print

Future Dangers for a Maritime City. From its description Rising
Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront, a six-month
research program being inaugurated early next month at the Museum
of Modern Art, sounds like the kind of dry, somnolent workshop
someone would dream up for a convention of civil engineers.
Conceived to address the potential effects of rising water levels
and apocalyptic storms on the city, the program is modeled on the
principles of “soft infrastructure,” which proposes flexible
ecological systems as an alternative to “hard” solutions like
concrete dams and storm barriers. Posted.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/22/arts/design/22currents.html?sq=global%20warming&st=cse&scp=7&pagewanted=print

U.N. Finds Greenhouse Gases On The Rise Before Economic
Collapse. Greenhouse gas emissions in wealthy countries shot up
between 2006 and 2007, according to the most recent U.N. figures
released yesterday. The data, which show a 1 percent spike, do
not reflect the impact of the global recession, and they come on
the heels of a more recent study projecting that the economic
crisis will force down global warming pollution to about 2007
levels. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2009/10/22/7

Fewer Americans Believe In Human-Induced Global Warming – Poll.
A declining percentage of Americans believe there is solid
evidence that human activities, including burning fossil fuels,
are causing global temperatures to rise, according to a newly
released poll by the Pew Research Center for the People & the
Press. However, the poll shows that more respondents support
carbon dioxide controls than oppose them. Asked if they back
setting emissions limits and making companies pay for their
emissions, even if it may mean higher energy prices, 50 percent
said they were in favor and 39 percent said they were opposed.
Posted. http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/print/2009/10/22/4

Talking Turkey on Cap-and-Trade. With the Senate starting work
on its version of a cap-and-trade system to limit carbon
emissions, opponents are gearing up for a fight. "This
cap-and-trade is a turkey," said Sen. Kit Bond, R-Mo., yesterday.
"I don't care how many gee gaws you put on it, that baby's never
going to fly." Bond and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas,
yesterday unveiled a new study that claims the Senate
cap-and-trade proposal amounts to a $3.6 trillion fuel tax.
Posted.
http://www.truckinginfo.com/news/news-print.asp?news_id=68236

Ask The Experts: Think 'Green' For Automotive Job Opportunities.
The recession may be waning, but job hunting is still hard work.
This week, career counselor Terri Carpenter of Sacramento Works
offers advice to jobless readers. My husband lost his job as a
shop foreman at a Ford dealership last November. He has been
unable to find anything else since. His legacy is the fact that
he can fix anything! Do you have any recommendations for career
redirection or insight into what types of careers might be in the
forefront in (coming) years? Your husband might consider a "clean
diesel" training program or one of the clean energy industry's
training programs for specialty jobs, such as a mechanic for
hybrid/alternative fuel vehicles. Posted.
http://www.sacbee.com/business/story/2267488.html

The End of California? Dream On! California, you may have heard,
is an apocalyptic mess of raging wildfires, soaring unemployment,
mass foreclosures and political paralysis. It's dysfunctional.
It's ungovernable. Its bond rating is barely above junk. It's so
broke, it had to hand out IOUs while its leaders debated how many
prisoners to release and parks to close. Nevada aired ads mocking
California's business climate to lure its entrepreneurs. Posted.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1931582,00.html

Plug-In Cars Are Almost Here, but Charging Stations Lag. Detroit
— Even though several automakers plan to begin selling electric
vehicles next year, their sales may be limited by the lack of a
national infrastructure to support them, speakers at a conference
here on plug-in cars said on Wednesday. Utilities that serve most
of the nation’s electricity customers said they were aware of the
issue, and would take several steps, including working to help
develop plans for charging stations, and would use
battery-powered vehicles themselves. Posted.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/22/business/22electric.html?_r=2&ref=todayspaper&pagewanted=print

The Road To Zero Mpg Starts With A 'Hybrid Household,' Nissan
Says. For some, the key to clean driving might be a hybrid car.
For others, the better path may be a "hybrid household." Many
households already have different cars for different purposes --
a compact car for fuel-saving rides and an SUV for handling the
kids, for example. That model might also work for all-electric
cars such as the Nissan Leaf, a five-seat sedan scheduled to hit
the mass market in 2012. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2009/10/22/2

State May Push For TVs To Use Half The Energy. Sacramento -
California regulators, concerned over the proliferation of
flat-panel television sets that guzzle electricity, could soon
impose first-in-the-nation laws that restrict how much power
televisions can consume. In some cases, televisions use more
energy than refrigerators, regulators said during a legislative
hearing Wednesday on a proposal to force television manufacturers
to cut the power TVs use in California in half by 2013. Posted.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/22/MNIB1A8C5P.DTL&type=printable

The Air Up Here: Why Emissions Checks Are Not Required For Most
Tahoe Vehicles. Incline Village, Nev. — Lake Tahoe is the land of
the environmental impact study. From building a new resort,
changing a road or developing a new regional plan, practically
every development that could affect the lake's environment is
tested and tried. But when it comes to vehicle emissions, testing
and trying is negligible. Most vehicles registered in the Lake
Tahoe Basin are not required to have an emissions test. Posted.
http://www.sierrasun.com/article/20091021/NEWS/910219986/1066&ParentProfile=1051

BLOGS

Time To (Finally) De-Guzzle Our Cars? Californians will get the
last word in a trio of public hearings that the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of
Transportation launch this week over whether and how to slash the
fuel appetite of the nation's car fleet. In the wake of President
Obama's May 19 accord with California regulators, U.S.
automakers, the United Autoworkers and environmental groups, the
federal agencies will listen to public comments in Detroit today,
in New York on Friday and in Los Angeles on Tuesday.  Posted.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2009/10/fuel-economy-standards.html

Keeping Natural Gas in Pipelines, Not the Air. The Environmental
Protection Agency issued its latest report on the Methane to
Markets program aimed at encouraging industries to capture
“fugitive” emissions of the one greenhouse gas that’s a valuable
fuel, methane. (Nearly all of natural gas is methane.) The
illustration above shows the emissions captured so far in
international partnerships and those identified but not yet
pursued. The gains are substantial, and — as we reported recently
— and often profitable. Posted.
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/22/keeping-natural-gas-in-pipelines-not-the-air/?pagemode=print