TheGreenFront presents: This Day in Climate History August 15, 2004: In the New York Times, Al Gore reviews Ross Gelbspans Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists, and Activists Are Fueling the Climate Crisis -- and What We Can Do to Avert Disaster, the follow-up to his seminal 1997 book The Heat Is On: The Climate Crisis, the Cover-Up, the Prescription. nytimes/2004/08/15/books/hot-enough-for-us.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm amazon/Boiling-Point-Politicians-Journalists-Crisis--And/dp/0465027628/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1387936832&sr=8-1&keywords=boiling+point+ross+gelbspan amazon/The-Heat-Is-On-Prescription/dp/0738200255/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1387936855&sr=8-1&keywords=the+heat+is+on+ross+gelbspan August 15, 2007: Syndicated columnist Michael Gerson observes: There are several proposals by members of Congress -- including a bipartisan bill from Sens. Joseph Lieberman and John Warner due next month -- that take a cap-and-trade approach to greenhouse gases. The government mandates overall reductions in emissions and lets companies decide how to implement them. If someone produces less carbon dioxide, for example, that reduction can be sold to another producer and yield some money in the process. This kind of market-based system has been used successfully to cut coal-powered plants emissions of sulfur dioxide, the main cause of acid rain. A cap-and-trade system isnt perfect. It is open to fraud -- companies in other countries have sometimes increased their production of pollutants to get benefits for cutting them later. A cap-and-trade bill could be used by Congress to push subsidies toward pet environmental projects of questionable value. But the overall argument for a cap-and-trade system is strong. The answer to global warming will eventually be technological -- the production of energy without the production of heat-trapping gases. But only the government can create the incentives for Americans to work on this problem with urgency and seriousness. washingtonpost/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/14/AR2007081401327.html?hpid=opinionsbox1 August 15, 2013: • The Washington Post reports: After nearly three years, the White House began installing solar panels on the First Familys residence this week, a White House official confirmed Thursday. The Obama administration had pledged in October 2010 to put solar panels on the White House as a sign of the presidents commitment to renewable energy. The White House official, who asked not to be identified because the installation is in process, wrote in an e-mail the project is a part of an energy retrofit that will improve the overall energy efficiency of the building. m.washingtonpost/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/08/15/white-house-solar-panels-finally-being-installed/ • Former Rep. Bob Inglis (R-SC) discusses his effort to get the GOP to drop climate denial with MSNBC host Chris Hayes. msnbc/all-in/watch/the-conservative-argument-to-act-on-climate-change-42605635927 • Earlier in the evening, Hayes and Michael Smerconish discuss The Politics of Power on MSNBCs Hardball. msnbc/hardball/watch/despite-evidence-to-contrary-ideologues-deny-global-warming-42556995856
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