{"id":402,"date":"2008-02-25T21:49:59","date_gmt":"2008-02-26T02:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2008\/02\/25\/dailykos_wsj\/"},"modified":"2008-04-22T12:14:36","modified_gmt":"2008-04-22T17:14:36","slug":"dailykos_wsj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2008\/02\/25\/dailykos_wsj\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Legislation on DailyKos and WSJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/7\/files\/2008\/02\/sheryl_canter.jpg' height=\"80\" alt='Sheryl Canter' align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" class=\"blogAuthorPic\" \/><i>This post is by Sheryl Canter, an Online Writer and Editorial Manager at Environmental Defense.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2008\/2\/21\/83030\/8351\">post on DailyKos on the importance of acting now<\/a>, TheGreenMiles called out an argument we made for the urgency of passing climate legislation, and expanded on it by discussing how action now could positively impact change at the local level.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/environmentalcapital\/2008\/02\/22\/green-eyeshades-vs-starry-eyes-the-cap-or-tax-debate\/\"><i>Wall Street Journal<\/i> blog, posting on cap-and-trade versus carbon tax<\/a>, called out two of our Climate 411 posts in their discussion of the relative merits of each approach. Their recap was mostly accurate, except for this misstatement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Environmental Defense says the threat is catastrophic \u201ctipping points\u201d that could melt ice sheets, disrupt ocean currents, and accelerate deforestation. Never mind that those \u201ctipping points\u201d don\u2019t always jibe with work done by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Because Environmental Defense starts from that more-worried point&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>All our posts are reviewed by our science team, and do concur with the IPCC work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is by Sheryl Canter, an Online Writer and Editorial Manager at Environmental Defense. 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