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CLIMATE CHANGE

New Climate Chief: 'No Option' But To Take Action. Bonn, Germany
— World nations have no choice but to join forces to stop global
warming, but achieving a legally binding treaty this year should
not be the only focus, the new U.N. climate chief said Wednesday.
Christiana Figueres said that "governments will meet this
challenge, for the simple reason that humanity must meet this
challenge." "We just don't have another option," said Figueres,
who replaces Yvo de Boer next month as head of the U.N. Framework
Convention on Climate Change. Posted.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i9TuMrvrknh-ZXwqmZ2N-48kff3wD9G7QSAO1

NASA plans Arctic mission at sea. ANCHORAGE, Alaska—NASA is
launching a mission from Alaska next month, but it won't be into
space. The agency will take to the sea June 15 from Dutch Harbor
in the Aleutians on its first dedicated oceanographic field
campaign. The voyage is billed as an up close look at how
conditions in the Arctic are affecting ocean chemistry and
ecosystems that play a critical role in global climate change.
Posted.
http://www.contracostatimes.com/nation-world/ci_15253276?nclick_check=1

Opinion: The Climate Majority. ON Thursday, the Senate will vote
on a resolution proposed by Lisa Murkowski, Republican of Alaska,
that would scuttle the Environmental Protection Agency’s plans to
limit emissions of greenhouse gases by American businesses.
Passing the resolution might seem to be exactly what Americans
want. After all, national surveys released during the last eight
months have been interpreted as showing that fewer and fewer
Americans believe that climate change is real, human-caused and
threatening to people. Posted.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/09/opinion/09krosnick.html?pagewanted=print

New Deal Could Breathe Life Into Offset Market. United Nations
-- Perhaps there's a future for the international carbon
offsetting market after all, even without a new international
climate change treaty. In what could be a sign of things to come,
a San Diego-based carbon credit brokerage announced a deal
yesterday to purchase a large volume of Certified Emission
Reductions (CERs), the international greenhouse gas offsetting
credits generated by the United Nations' Clean Development
Mechanism, from an international carbon abatement project
developer. Posted.
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/print/2010/06/09/4

Effect Of 2010 Elections On Carbon Cap And Trade Climate Change
Policy. The results of the 2010 elections will have no impact on
carbon control Cap and Trade regulation. Current effort by
Republican Alaskan Senator Murkowski has no impact on the
regional Climate Change Control programs running in the West,
East and surprisingly coal rich Mid-West. While the south and a
few small market states are not covered by voluntary programs 75%
of the U.S. economy and carbon is. Posted.
http://www.examiner.com/x-5908-Environmental-Policy-Examiner~y2010m6d9-Effect-of-2010-elections-on-carbon-cap-and-trade-Climate-Change-policy

TRU’s

Court Denies Further Review of TRU Decision. The U.S. District
Court for the District of Columbia has denied the American
Trucking Associations' request that a full panel reconsider a
panel's previous decision that California could continue to
enforce its Transport Refrigeration Unit regulation, according to
ATA's Truckline newsletter. The rule, adopted in February 2004,
requires that TRUs equipped with diesel engines seven years or
older be replaced or retrofit with new engines. This applies only
to TRUs operating in California. Posted.
http://www.truckinginfo.com/news/news-print.asp?news_id=70647


BLOGS

Why Wait for a Climate Bill, G.E. Argues. A.J. Mast for The New
York Times Workers staging concrete pipe last year at a Duke
Energy coal plant under construction in Edwardsport, Ind. It was
designed to allow for the possibility of carbon dioxide capture.
Given the dicey odds for congressional approval of climate
legislation, at least in the near term, a company that sells
equipment for reducing carbon dioxide emissions is promoting a
new strategy: federal money for tactical planning. Posted.
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/09/why-wait-for-a-climate-bill-ge-argues/?pagemode=print

Lindsey Graham And The Failure Of The 'Lone Republican' Theory.
With Lindsey Graham bolting a bill he helped draft, efforts to
address climate change in this Congress look likely to fail. And
because the next Congress is likely to have more Republicans, and
because the House's approval of Waxman-Markey will expire after
the election and mean the House would have to write and pass a
whole new bill, the situation looks grim going forward, too.
Posted.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/06/lindsey_graham_and_the_failure.html

Unmasking Disinformation, From Tobacco To Climate. It's no
secret that many climate skeptics have ties to the fossil fuel
industry, or are ideologically opposed to the policy implications
of mainstream climate science, which holds that emissions of
greenhouse gases are causing global temperatures to increase.
Posted.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/capitalweathergang/2010/06/unmasking_scientific_disinform.html