China is today’s glimmer of green hope — yes, China — on Cool Green Morning. Here are the five links you MUST click on today to stay au courant en verde:

• Glug Glug Glug: Florida, Louisiana, Texas and North Carolina’s coasts are among the most vulnerable in the United States to sea-level rise (a widely predicted effect of climate change), says a new federal report. (Hat tip: Environmental Economics).

• No, We Can’t? Can industrialized nations cut their greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent to 40 percent by 2020 (as pledge in Bali last year)? No way, says Obama administration chief climate-change negotiator Todd Stern. Environmental Capital says that’s just another in a series of climate change retrenchments by the White House from Obama campaign positions.

• An Inconvenient URL: Al Gore has thrown his weight behind “a new social venture that aims to secure the .eco domain name,” reports Red Green & Blue. (Presumably, .eco URLs will be used for good rather than ill.)

• The Future of the Green Blogosphere: Our colleague Meaghan O’Neill, the editor in chief of Treehugger and Planet Green.com, predicts the future of green online in the Guardian.

• We’ll Have 2 Billion Cars By 2030: And China might be the best hope for creating a greener transportation model, argue Deborah Gordon and Daniel Sperling in Yale Environment 360.

(Credit: Eroding shoreline caused by rise in sea level along the Albemarle Penninsula, North Carolina. Credit: Jennifer Henman/TNC.)

Posted: March 5th, 2009 under China, Climate Change, Cool Green Morning, Media.
Tags: Al Gore, Bali, car, China, Climate Change, Daniel Sperling, Deborah Gordon, Environmental Capital, Environmental Economics, greenhouse gas, Guardian, Meaghan O'Neill, Obama, Planet Green, Red Green and Blue, sea level rise, Todd Stern, Treehugger, Yale Environment 360