{"id":547606,"date":"2010-04-29T14:01:35","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T18:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/?p=1884"},"modified":"2010-04-29T14:01:35","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T18:01:35","slug":"comments-on-yesterdays-top-blogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/547606","title":{"rendered":"Comments on yesterday&#8217;s top blogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On <em>E2<\/em>, <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/e2-wire\/677-e2-wire\/94807-nike-ebay-other-companies-press-senate-on-stalled-climate-bill-as-negotiations-continue\">Nike, eBay and others are asking Senators<\/a> to \u201cget stalled climate and energy legislation back on track.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Reuters<\/em> reports that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will start analyzing the comprehensive climate and clean energy bill. \u201cThe <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE63Q3V220100427\">EPA analysis is an important step<\/a> in the legislative process.\u201d \u201cWe are sending the bill to be modeled now with Lindsey Graham\u2019s consent,\u201d Senator Kerry told reporters.<\/p>\n<p><em><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/green.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/27\/e-p-a-makes-its-case-on-climate-change\/\">Green Inc. <span style=\"font-style:normal;\">focuses on a new EPA report<\/span><\/a><\/em> released yesterday called <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/climatechange\/indicators.html\">\u201cClimate Change Indicators in the United States<\/a>.\u201d The report is full of interesting data points and graphics including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cThe portion of North America covered by snow has generally decreased since 1972, although there has been much year-to-year variability. Snow covered an average of 3.18 million square miles of North America during the years 2000 to 2008, compared with 3.43 million square miles during the 1970s.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cIn the United States, greenhouse gas emissions caused by human activities increased by 14 percent from 1990 to 2008.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.gwagner.com\/\">Gernot Wagner<\/a>, EDF economist notes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe EPA report is a terrific reminder of the fact that climate change is not some distant phenomenon our grand kids may or may not experience. We can already see some of the direct effects all around us. It&#039;s also good reminder of the certainties among the sea of uncertainties surrounding climate change. We don&#039;t know all the details, but the general direction has become increasingly clear. And the parts we don&#039;t know are even scarier.&#034;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Graph from EPA report <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/climatechange\/indicators.html\">Climate Change Indicators in the United States<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1890\" title=\"Temperature Change Map\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/files\/2010\/04\/temp-change-map1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"460\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?a=ZjQO43zbee4:ZTSXYKnEL-Q:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?a=ZjQO43zbee4:ZTSXYKnEL-Q:2mJPEYqXBVI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?d=2mJPEYqXBVI\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?a=ZjQO43zbee4:ZTSXYKnEL-Q:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?a=ZjQO43zbee4:ZTSXYKnEL-Q:u0Zhe-nyOHo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?d=u0Zhe-nyOHo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?a=ZjQO43zbee4:ZTSXYKnEL-Q:dnMXMwOfBR0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/environmentaldefense?d=dnMXMwOfBR0\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/environmentaldefense\/~4\/ZjQO43zbee4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On E2, Nike, eBay and others are asking Senators to \u201cget stalled climate and energy legislation back on track.\u201d Reuters reports that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will start analyzing the comprehensive climate and clean energy bill. \u201cThe EPA analysis is an important step in the legislative process.\u201d \u201cWe are sending the bill to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4273,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}