Global Warming and Climate Change: Real vs. False Solutions

Why we (and lots of other groups) oppose the federal climate legislation

• Business As Usual (Greenpeace report)
• The Story of Cap and Trade video
• "Subprime Carbon" -- Rethinking The World's Largest New Derivatives Market (Friends of the Earth)
• Hoodwinked in the Hothouse (Rising Tide booklet)
• Deal or No Deal? (Rising Tide publication on Copenhagen UN Climate Talks)
• The Climate Movement is Dead: Long Live the Climate Movement! (Rising Tide publication)
• EJ Matters: The environmental justice movement's critique of carbon trading
• Cheat Neutral (after getting your laughs, see their 'about' page)
• Environmental Justice Leadership Forum on Climate Change - Climate Justice Principles
• Gar Lipow: Emissions trading: A Mixed Record With Plenty Of Failures"
• Carbon Trade Watch
  • Carbon Trade Watch: The Carbon Neutral Myth guide on offsets
  • Carbon Trading: A critical conversation on climate change, privatization and power
• NASA climate scientist, Dr. James Hansen's statements against the climate bill:
  • Climate change policies failing, Nasa scientist warns Obama
  • G-8 Failure Reflects U.S. Failure on Climate Change
• Tribal elders: carbon trading not ethical (YouTube video)
• What’s the Right Target: 350 or 450? Maggie Zhou, Secure Green Future
• Carbon taxes

Get Involved!

• Climate SOS
• Act for Climate Justice
• Beyond Talk
• 350 Reasons
• Cool Foods Campaign
• No War, No Warming

The Facts on False Solutions:

• Biomass / incineration:
  • Biomass Factsheet
  • No Biomass Burning in Climate Legislation
  • Incineration
  • Biomass Effects on Forest Cutting, and the Myth of Carbon Neutrality
  • Stop Spewing Carbon campaign against Biomass Burning in Massachusetts
  • Biomess: Massachusetts Forests and Environment Threatened by Forest Biomass Incinerators
• Landfills and incinerators
  • Zero Waste for Zero Warming Campaign
  • Stop Trashing the Climate report
• Landfill gas
• Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS):
  • Carbon Capture and Sequestration: False Hope (Greenpeace)
  • Guest Essay: Peter Montague. Grist 2007
• Natural Gas:
  • Natural Gas Factsheet
  • Un-Natural Gas
• Nuclear Power:
  • Nuclear Power and the Planet: Why Nukes Can't Save the Planet
  • Nuclear Power: No solution to climate change
  • The Clear Case Against Nuclear
• Biochar
• Biodiesel
• Ethanol
• Cellulosic ethanol
• Climate Geoengineering with "C negative" Bioenergy (Biofuelwatch)

http://www.energyjustice.net/