Climate Legislation on DailyKos and WSJ
February 25, 2008 | Posted by Sheryl Canter in Climate Change Legislation
This post is by Sheryl Canter, an Online Writer and Editorial Manager at Environmental Defense.
In a post on DailyKos on the importance of acting now, TheGreenMiles called out an argument we made for the urgency of passing climate legislation, and expanded on it by discussing how action now could positively impact change at the local level.
The Wall Street Journal blog, posting on cap-and-trade versus carbon tax, called out two of our Climate 411 posts in their discussion of the relative merits of each approach. Their recap was mostly accurate, except for this misstatement:
Environmental Defense says the threat is catastrophic “tipping points” that could melt ice sheets, disrupt ocean currents, and accelerate deforestation. Never mind that those “tipping points” don’t always jibe with work done by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Because Environmental Defense starts from that more-worried point...
All our posts are reviewed by our science team, and do concur with the IPCC work.
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March 6th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
[...] than an inflexible cap-and-trade system. The EDF, a longtime advocate of emissions trading, disagrees. It says catastrophic changes wrought by global warming
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