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Znet Article Dimaggio: Manufactured Dissent

Znet Article, March, 09 2010 Anthony Dimaggio
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Global warming has graduated to the status of one of the great enduring political issues of our time. Unfortunately, public discourse has taken a dramatic step backward in light of corporate media’s attacks against the scientific community. Scie...

Commentary Hahnel: Why Cap And Trade And Not A Carbon Tax?

Commentary, February, 25 2010 Robin Hahnel
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A carbon tax is preferable to cap and trade unless there are compelling practical reasons a tax won't work as well.

Commentary Landau: The Hottest Decade

Commentary, February, 19 2010 Saul Landau
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Global temperatures varied because of changes in ocean heating and cooling cycles. `When we average temperature over 5 or 10 years to minimize that variability,' said Dr. James E. Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, one...

Znet Article Hahnel: A Tale... Full Of Sound And Fury, Signifying Nothing

Znet Article, January, 26 2010 Robin Hahnel
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I did not mention Patrick Bond, or anyone else for that matter by name, in my three part series on the Left and Climate Change posted on ZNet on December 24, 25, and 26. Nor did I speculate about the motives or political character flaws of any aut...

Commentary Glick: Upping the Ante on Climate

Commentary, January, 24 2010 Ted Glick
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Just about one year ago, Barack Obama was inaugurated as President. Hopes were high among progressive-minded people, including climate activists. Finally, we had a President who got it on the need for action to address the deepening climate crisis.

Commentary Hahnel: A Climate Change Policy Primer

Commentary, January, 12 2010 Robin Hahnel
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Because misconceptions are commonplace a basic tutorial on the logic and implications of regulation, carbon taxes, and tradable carbon emission permits is useful. Hopefully this will correct some common misunderstandings about what different polic...

Commentary Hahnel: The Left & Climate Change 3/3: A Way Forward

Commentary, December, 26 2009 Robin Hahnel
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This is the third and final part of a three part ZNet commentary series by political economist Robin Hahnel posted between Dec. 24-26, 2009.

Commentary Hahnel: The Left & Climate Change 2/3: Turn Back From The Road To Nowhere

Commentary, December, 25 2009 Robin Hahnel
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This is part 2 of a three part ZNet commentary series by political economist Robin Hahnel, to be posted Dec. 24-26, 2009. Part 1 was posted yesterday. Part 3 will be available tomorrow.

Commentary Hahnel: Has The Left Missed The Boat On Climate Change?

Commentary, December, 24 2009 Robin Hahnel
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Part 1 of a three part series exploring the Left and climate change to be run on ZNet Dec. 24-26, 2009

Commentary Bond: Curing Post-Copenhagen Hangover

Commentary, December, 23 2009 Patrick Bond
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In Copenhagen, the world's richest leaders continued their fiery fossil fuel party last Friday night, ignoring requests of global village neighbors to please chill out.

Znet Article Tokar: What was really decided in Copenhagen?or, “50,000 people went to Denmark and all they got was a lousy 3-page political agreement”

Znet Article, December, 23 2009 Brian Tokar
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Detailed accounts from participants in the recent Copenhagen climate summit are still coming in, but a few things are already quite clear, even as countries step up the blame game in response to the summit’s disappointing conclusion.

Znet Article Monbiot: If You Want To Know Who's To Blame For Copenhagen, Look To The US Senate

Znet Article, December, 22 2009 George Monbiot
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The last time global negotiations collapsed like this was in Doha, in 2001. After the trade talks fell apart, the World Trade Organization assured delegates that there was nothing to fear: they would move to Mexico, where a deal would be done. The...

Commentary Brecher: Doom and Gloom

Commentary, December, 21 2009 Jeremy Brecher
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As world leaders return from Copenhagen without an agreement that will protect the earth's atmosphere from devastating climate change, we ordinary people are forced to confront not only what we think, but also what we feel.

Znet Article Chavez: Venezuelan President’s Speech on Climate Change in Copenhagen

Znet Article, December, 21 2009 Hugo Chavez
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Venezuelan President’s Speech on Climate Change in Copenhagen

Commentary Monbiot: This Is Bigger Than Climate Change. It Is A Battle To Redefine Humanity

Commentary, December, 17 2009 George Monbiot
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This is the moment at which we turn and face ourselves. Here, in the plastic corridors and crowded stalls, among impenetrable texts and withering procedures, humankind decides what it is and what it will become. It chooses whether to continue livi...

Commentary Bond: Countering critics of a cap-and-trade critique

Commentary, December, 16 2009 Patrick Bond
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Eight million people viewed Annie Leonard's The Story of Stuff video since December 2007, and her new nine-minute Story of Cap and Trade received 400,000 hits in the two weeks after its December 1 launch.

Znet Article Monbiot: The Most Urgent Threat to World Peace Is … Canada

Znet Article, December, 09 2009 George Monbiot
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The immediate threat to the global effort to sustain a peaceful and stable world comes not from Saudi Arabia or Iran or China. It comes from Canada. How could that be true?

Commentary Tokar: Repackaging Copenhagen: Will There Be a Global Climate Agreement?

Commentary, December, 05 2009 Brian Tokar
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On the eve of the UN’s long-awaited Copenhagen climate summit, officials are pulling out all the stops to spin the conference as a success, no matter what actually happens.

Znet Article Kovel: End Times In Copenhagen

Znet Article, November, 19 2009 Joel Kovel
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It’s hard to overstate the importance of the upcoming December meetings at Copenhagen, Denmark, set up by the UN for the purpose of renegotiating the climate protocols set forth in Kyoto, in 1997 and due to expire in 2012. These latter were gree...

Commentary Monbiot: We Cannot Fight Climate With Consumerism

Commentary, November, 09 2009 George Monbiot
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The 'licensing effect': Researchers have found that buying green can establish the moral credentials that license subsequent bad behaviour.

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