Who, Me Worry? Department: Climate change concern is based not on scientific ignorance but on your world view, a new Yale research study indicates, reports Targeted News Services. If you value strong, unregulated, individual freedom, you likely will not worry about climate change, and you'll use your scientific knowledge to rationalize that stance. If you value a more unified world community and collective responsibility, you're worried.
The Answer's in the Wind: President Obama says that Congress (read, Republicans mostly) will kill many jobs, if it doesn't extend a wind industry tax credit, due to expire at the end of 2012, reports the Associated Press, as insecure investors leave the industry.
California Dreamin' Just Got Sunnier: Utility regulators in California tweaked the rules that allow participation in the solar metering credit program, doubling the number of those who can install rooftop solar panels and get credit for any extra energy that feeds back to the electrical grid, reports Mark Lifsher at the LA Times.
Win-win-win!!! A new Rights and Resources Initiative reports shows that when land rights of forest dwellers are respected, forests are nurtured rather than destructively exploited, which releases huge amounts of greenhouse gases, reports Elain Kurtenbach of the Associated Press. When people win, so do forests, and the fight against climate change. Read the full report here.
Source: Mary Ellen Harte, Huffington Post.
