Archive for August 31st, 2006

The California Trail

31st 2006f August, 2006, Peter

California is set to create a cap-and-trade system for carbon emissions, according to this BBC report. The state would be the first US state to do this.
UPDATE: Here is an FT report with some reactions from Californian business leaders, for and against.
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Science latest

31st 2006f August, 2006, Peter

We’ve collected here some recent news reports of science related to climate change and its likely impacts on human affairs:

It seems that plankton in the Pacific Ocean absorb less carbon dioxide than previously thought, probably due to a lack of iron. This could have implications for our models of CO2.
As glaciers increasingly melt under [...]

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