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Solar power is great; People power is even better

Graphic by CO2Now.org

With debate on a climate bill in a holding pattern in the US Senate, and the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen just 46 days away, we figured the timing was right for a look at the number one reason for going solar: climate change (aka, global warming and climate chaos).

There are plenty of reasons to switch from fossil fuels to solar power. Jobs. National security. Economics. Groovy technology.

CO2 Molecule

CO2 Molecule

The most important reasons are the 384 molecules of CO2 found in every million molecules of dry air.

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Briefing Book | Once more to the trough

The Senate Trough

Senate Deliberations

If it weren’t for mixed messages, the US Senate wouldn’t be sending any messages at all.

Yesterday, WaPo ran a story about how the Senate, once hot to trot on passing a climate change bill, had decided to rein it in. Climate legislation got its first hearing before Senator Barbara Boxer’s Environment committee on Tuesday. Afterwords, Grist’s Kate Sheppared noted, Boxer’s office was planning to vote on a bill in “early August.”

Two days later, Boxer announced that they’ll have a bill “as soon as we get back” from the Senate’s last-of-summer break. Translation: See you in September. A final vote may not come before December’s UN conference in Copenhagen on climate change.

Said Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), “I don’t even expect it to come up this year.”

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