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    1. The Normandy Invasion For U.S. Climate Change

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      The Normandy Invasion For U.S. Climate Change
      The upcoming California midterm elections represent the equivalent of the Normandy invasion for national climate legislation: an epic battle whose outcome will likely determine the near-term fate of efforts to collar greenhouse gas emissions. In November, in addition to electing a new governor, 37 million Californians will exercise their version of direct democracy by voting on a ballot initiative designed to kill AB 32, the landmark climate legislation enacted in 2006 and widely regarded as the most aggressive climate legislation on planet Earth. It calls for a host of greenhouse-gas reduction measures, including the implementation of cap and trade by 2012. The Public Policy Institute of California predicts that more than $150 million dollars will be spent on this throw-down.
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    2. Google Purchases Carbon Credits from Landfill

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      Google Purchases Carbon Credits from Landfill
      In the Green IT space, Google features prominently with a stated goal of becoming carbon neutral. Of course, Google's actual carbon footprint is a closely-guarded secret since the company doesn't break out the location or even number of its data centers. The company is absolutely serious about reducing its carbon footprint, however, with a multiple-prong strategy including data center efficiency, investing in renewable energy sources, and providing venture capital to promising new technologies.
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    3. Data center build-out guru Mike Manos: Five data center game changers

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      Data center build-out guru Mike Manos: Five data center game changers
      Mike Manos, vice president of service operations at Nokia, has had a major impact on the data center industry. As general manager of data center services at Microsoft, Manos oversaw Redmond's infrastructure ramp-up to compete with Google and pushed adoption of containerized data centers by using them in high-profile facilities. He is also a fixture on the data center conference circuit, warning IT organizations about coming carbon regulation for data centers. Other data center pros shaping the industry: Dean Nelson brings power to the people Now, Manos runs service infrastructure for cell phone provider Nokia. The cell phone is the primary way 80% of the world's population accesses the Internet, and his new job involves ramping up that infrastructure. In this Q&A, Manos talks about the evolution of the data center container and carbon regulation. This Q&A is part of a series of interviews with five ...
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    4. Senators Could Face Difficult Climate Vote, One Way or ...

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      Senators Could Face Difficult Climate Vote, One Way or ...
      Time is closing in for the Senate to cast a rare vote, which Republicans will control, that seeks to block the Obama administration from reducing carbon emissions through new tailpipe standards and smokestack limits. It is a theatrical demand that would make lawmakers take a stand on a politically inflamed climate issue as they approach midterm elections, which could shuffle the balance of power in Washington.
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    5. National Academy of Sciences Urges Swift US Action to Curb Greenhouse Gases

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      National Academy of Sciences Urges Swift US Action to Curb Greenhouse Gases
      The National Academy of Sciences wants to put the United States on a low-carbon diet. More News From Greenwire MMS Lacks Sufficient Rules for Offshore Drilling Safety Devices, Interior Chief Says WWF Emerges as Leading Lobbyist on Senate Climate Bill Corruption, Mismanagement Strangle Vital Kenyan Watershed Biotech Cotton Curbs One Pest Only to Unleash Another Software Prospects Fuel Manufacturer of High-End Electric Motorcycles A blog about energy, the environment and the bottom line. Go to Blog » That is the underlying message of a hotly anticipated trio of reports requested by Congress and released today. In them, the academy describes an "urgent need" for the nation to trim its greenhouse gas emissions. The reports say available evidence "makes a compelling case" that climate change is happening now, is largely driven by human activities and threatens the well-being of people today and in future generations.
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    6. Carbon tax could whack data centers

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      Carbon tax could whack data centers
      A carbon tax is inevitable, several speakers and panelists said at the Uptime Institute IT Symposium this week. Data centers that don't plan for it could get whacked with millions of dollars in additional operating costs per year -- and it could happen sooner than most people might think. "There will be a price for carbon, in spite of the nasty, messy politics in Washington," said Jonathan Koomey, a data center energy efficiency researcher, consulting professor with Stanford University and project scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. It is impossible to meet government mandated carbon reduction targets without one, he says.
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      Mentions: The Green Grid Uptime Institute Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

    7. Combating Thermal Issues with Next-Gen Tools

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      Combating Thermal Issues with Next-Gen Tools
      Today’s facilities are dealing with increased heat loads and power densities like never before, a result of faster equipment processor speeds in smaller form factors and the accelerated switch to blade servers. Typical rack loads have gone from 1-2kW per racks just a few years ago, to 6-10kW per rack - with high-density areas seeing 15-25kW per rack. The industry is simply outgrowing the hot/cold aisle approach, and while there is some new construction going on, not every facility can add more power or cooling infrastructure. This means that data center managers must get better efficiencies out of their existing facilities.
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      Mentions: The Green Grid Uptime Institute ASHRAE

    8. Uncertainty and lack of understanding greet official launch of CRC scheme

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      Uncertainty and lack of understanding greet official launch of CRC scheme
      Business does not 'understand' and is 'unprepared' for today's (April 1) launch of Britain's much hyped carbon trading scheme. The Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy (CRC) Efficiency Scheme is a huge rating system, or league table, offering benefits to low carbon businesses and hitting high emitters with more costs. However, corporate responsibility consultants Acona believe 'numerous revisions' early in the scheme's life have created 'confusion' amongst businesses.
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    9. EBay's Utah data center is company's largest capital investment

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      EBay's Utah data center is company's largest capital investment
      The Utah data center that eBay Inc. plans to open this spring is the single largest investment in capital the online auction giant has ever made, according to its senior global data center director. The facility, with an estimated cost $334 million, will employ energy efficient design, and seek the U.S. Green Building Council's Leader in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification, said Dean Nelson, the senior director of global data center strategy, architecture and operations. "The foundation of our revenue is our data centers," he said. "We live and die by our data centers."
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    10. Los Angeles Launches Carbon Reduction Surcharge ...

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      Los Angeles Launches Carbon Reduction Surcharge ...
      Yesterday the Mayor of Los Angeles unveiled a proposal for a Carbon Reduction Surcharge to raise an estimated $170 million a year to be placed into a Renewable Energy and Efficiency Trust Fund set aside to provide dedicated revenue for renewable energy and efficiency investment. The trust fund will specifically invest in two types of programs: energy efficiency and a solar feed-in tariff. The dedicated carbon tax will cost Los Angeles residents $2.50-$3.50 extra on their monthly Los Angeles Water & Power bill.
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    11. CO2 Impact on Datacenters

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      CO2 Impact on Datacenters
      n 2008 International Science Grid stated that 4% of the world's CO2production was due to Information & Communications Technology (ICT), that this was about the same amount of GHG (greenhouse gases) produced by the airline industry, and that of that 4% Gartner Group says that 25% came as a result of commercial and private datacenters. In 2008 the world's GHG output was, according to the German renewable energy industry institute IWR, 31.5 x109, or 31.5 billion metric tonnes. So, 1% of the world's total GHG emissions amount to 31.5 x 106 metric tonnes (315,000,000 million) and that amount was the result of just one source, private (corporate/government) and commercial datacenters. That's not the whole story though. ICT is increasing at a logarithmic pace and as it increases so too does the contribution to Global Climate Change (GCC) from datacenters. The more efficient we make our ICT devices and infrastructure, the lower the cost to the consumer and hence the greater the demand for those devices (see Khazzoom-Brookes); the greater the demand for ICT, the more load is put on datacenters, the higher the contribution of the industry to GHG totals.
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    12. U.S. Wind Industry Calls for Renewable Energy Standard

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      This week the American Wind Energy Association assembled a bunch of energy industry executives to make a pitch to the press for a national renewable energy standard , that is, a mandate requiring utilities to generate certain proportions of electricity from renewable sources by certain dates.
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      Mentions: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Columbia University American Wind Energy Association

    13. Utilities Willing to Go First -- but Not Alone -- on Emission Limits

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      Utilities Willing to Go First -- but Not Alone -- on Emission Limits
      The heads of several prominent utilities say they would not necessarily object to the power sector being the first industry subject to carbon emission limits under proposed climate change legislation. More News From ClimateWire Battle Lines Harden Over New Transmission Policy for Renewables Alberta Works Quietly to Improve Image of Oil Sands Decongesting Rail Traffic Is a Major Step to Raise Fuel Efficiency U.K. and Its Major Power Producer Brawl Over Biomass Subsidies Obama Speech to Business Group Leaves Greenhouse Gas Issues Up in the Air A blog about energy, the environment and the bottom line. Go to Blog » Utilities played a significant role in the House-passed climate bill (H.R. 2454 (pdf)) that set an economywide cap-and-trade mechanism, but Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) are moving in a different direction. The "gang of three" is pushing toward a plan to set ...
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    14. Senate Climate Talks Intensify With New Carbon Pricing Draft Expected This Week

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      Senate Climate Talks Intensify With New Carbon Pricing Draft Expected This Week
      he Senate trio at the center of talks on a comprehensive climate and energy bill will present a draft proposal this week to their fence-sitting colleagues and high-profile interest groups amid warnings from Democratic leadership that the window for action is closing. More News From ClimateWire Obama Speech to Business Group Leaves Greenhouse Gas Issues Up in the Air Carbon Pricing Sticks Out as Senate Climate Bill's Main Obstacle A Reactor That Burns Depleted Fuel Emerges as a Potential 'Game Changer' Reaping the Whirlwind? Europe's Big Wind Subsidy Race Obama Mounts a Last-Ditch Attempt to Pass a 'Hybrid' Climate and Energy Bill A blog about energy, the environment and the bottom line. Go to Blog » "It's time," said a Senate aide close to the process. "Game on." Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) have been working for months behind closed doors ...
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    15. Lack of Direction on Climate Change Hobbles Carbon Trading

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      Lack of Direction on Climate Change Hobbles Carbon Trading
      Touted by its supporters as the best and cheapest way to fight global warming, carbon trading is losing momentum amid the uncertainty created by the failure of the Copenhagen summit meeting and President Barack Obama’s political troubles in the United States. Investors are steering clear of energy-saving projects meant to generate carbon credits, and traders in Europe are hunkering down through a period of consolidation that is disappointing to those who had hoped carbon markets would grow quickly into a $2 trillion-a-year business.
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    17. Green supplier report: Purchasing counts the carbons

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      Green supplier report: Purchasing counts the carbons
      Purchasing departments are playing key roles in company campaigns to reduce their carbon footprint from greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Purchasing has been looking for energy savings since long before climate change science fingered GHG as a contributing cause. Aside from finding greener energy sources and contributing to energy efficiency innovations, they are involved in changing the materials buy or moving to processes that emit less CO2 and other gasses. "There has been surge of interest over the last year and half in inquiries about GHG emissions," says James Solo, vice president at Trucost, a U.K.-based consulting firm that assists companies in tracking and mitigating their emissions. "Just getting a handle on which operations generate emissions can be a challenge," Solo says.
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    18. How Cap & Trade May Impact the Data Center

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      How Cap & Trade May Impact the Data Center
      As governments around the world continue to explore and implement carbon emissions standards and carbon reduction commitments, many companies will be required to participate in auction-based carbon emissions trading schemes that are designed to provide economic and reputational incentives for achieving reductions in emissions. In many cases, those companies that do not reduce emissions could face financial penalties in the form of emissions credits they will need to purchase. For example, in the United Kingdom, the Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme will begin in April 2010 to promote energy efficiency and help reduce carbon emissions.
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    19. UK Cap and Trade Tirades go on - by Peter Judge

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      UK Cap and Trade Tirades go on - by Peter Judge
      This week has been another turbulent one for the green tech agenda. The backlash against fair UK's CRC carbon trading scheme got underway, and the overall global warming science got another kicking in the press too. . Firstly, the climate researchers whose emails were stolen got told off by the UK's information commissioner for not obeying Freedom of Information legislation. The group, at the University of East Anglia denies the charge, and has its own inquiry underway. But even if they did stonewall requests for data - which may well have been vexatious and excessive - that doesn't undermine the data itself. The scientists are coming out of their shell, and the deniers are eventually going to have to accept there is no smoking gun here. Climate change is - to the best of our current knowledge - real.
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    20. Carbon Dioxide, Cap and Trade, and the Data Center

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      Carbon Dioxide, Cap and Trade, and the Data Center
      Regardless of what you may think about anthropogenic global warming (climate change caused by human activity) or the recent scandal centering on the ethics and motivations of certain climate scientists, carbon dioxide is a substance that is in the political dog house. Residents of member states in the European Union have already seen the institution of a cap and trade system designed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions through government regulation; residents of the United States may well be in for a similar system. Although data centers generally do not, by themselves, spew carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, their operation does require large amounts of energy. Much of this energy is generated through fossil fuels, resulting in carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, for instance. Thus, data centers (although perhaps not mentioned specifically in discussions of this topic) are a target of emissions legislation.
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    21. The next decade: Renewable Energy

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      The next decade: Renewable Energy
      The clock has just struck midnight on New Year’s Eve, 2020, and your rooftop cocktail party is in full swing. An urban garden, with potted evergreens and fruit trees, carpets the top of your downtown apartment building. The structure itself is vintage – a 1960’s brownstone that’s been retrofitted, by city-wide mandate. It operates on the new multi-source national electrical grid, which is supplied by wind, solar, geothermal power, as well as fossil fuels whose emissions are trapped underground. Rooftop Garden (Photo: Adpower99/Dreamstime.) In your apartment, appliances and plumbing fixtures are energy- and water-efficient – something you were able to afford with the help of government incentives that started in 2010.
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    22. From Cap and Trade to Carbon Farming

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      From Cap and Trade to Carbon Farming
      The EPA’s decision to regulate carbon emissions, made on the eve of the Copenhagen climate summit, immediately incurred the wrath of industry. Businesses are petrified, as Iain Murray writes in The National Review online, that the agency will regulate “everything larger than a Gore-sized mansion.” What are we to make of this fear? There’s really no need to panic over the prospect of EPA dominance. Instead, industry should take the hint that’s it high time to push hard for climate-change legislation. Sure, the move by the EPA to exercise regulatory authority over carbon — a power granted to it by a 2007 Supreme Court ruling — was designed to give President Obama moral leverage in Denmark. But it also serves as a presidential prod to Congress to pass a climate-change law. No matter how you feel about global warming, greenhouse-gas emissions are not going to go unregulated. I suspect ...
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    23. At Climate Talks, Trade Pressures Mount

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      At Climate Talks, Trade Pressures Mount
      ould a legacy of the Copenhagen climate conference turn out to be higher tariffs? Living Story Global Warming Recent developments on the politics of global warming with background, analysis, timelines and earlier events from NYTimes.com and Google. Multimedia Interactive Feature Climate Change Conversations Graphic Who’s at the Climate Talks, and What Do They Seek? Interactive Feature Science and Politics of Climate Change Related Obama Has Goal to Wrest a Deal in Climate Talks (December 18, 2009) Times Topics: Copenhagen Climate Talks (UNFCCC) With little prospect of an agreement at the talks this week bringing immediate and binding emissions limits on the developing world, pressures are mounting in Europe and the United States to impose restrictions, called border adjustments, on imports from low-cost producers like China and India that are resisting cutting greenhouse gases. “The shadow of border adjustments hangs over these talks,” said David G. Victor, a professor ...
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    24. How to fight global warming: Smart taxes

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      How to fight global warming: Smart taxes
      With Copenhagen climate talks looking stalled and the Senate mired in complicated eco-wrangling, is there a simpler way to get the U.S. to reduce the carbon emissions that most scientists blame for global warming? Some say yes, a refundable carbon tax. The current cap and trade plan in congress to cut greenhouse gases involves a complex web of allotments and giveaways that some fear are too compromised to work. A carbon tax could cut greenhouse gases without having to make major concessions to any one interest group, supporters say. The tax works like this: A fee is levied at the refinery, coal mine, or natural gas well for each ton of carbon produced when the fuel is burned. That fee is passed on to the consumer, thus discouraging the use of the costliest, and most carbon-intensive fuels.
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