What’s the best song about climate change? Grist’s Dave Roberts has his picks (see below), and we have ours (see video above), which we’re sure will get your weekend off to a silently rolling (if not flying) start. It’s all in another edition of Coolness:
- Jobs, jobs, jobs — that’s what it’s down to for the climate bill in the U.S. Senate, reports Environmental Capital, as 10 Democratic U.S. senators (nicknamed the “Brown Dogs”) send a letter to President Obama demanding carbon tariffs against any country with looser environmental standards. Read the letter (PDF).
- On the other side of the world, China might be softening its opposition to a hard cap on its carbon emissions, concludes The Wall Street Journal (through much tea leaf reading, no pun intended. Hat tip: The Vine.)
- Swiss villagers want an audience with Pope Benedict to pray that global warming will stop — because their nearby glacier is melting fast, reports Planet Ark.
- Greenie criticism of the cash-for-clunkers program grows ever louder, says Green Tech’s Martin Lamonica, with one enviro saying: “As a carbon dioxide policy, this is a terribly wasteful thing to do.”
- Apologies for missing this Wednesday — Grist’s Dave Roberts lists 11 songs about climate change, from the really, really awful to the not so bad (see video above for Casual Mafia’s mock-rap “In My Prius,” which was #2 on Roberts’ list. Money line: “You won’t see me/Ever hit E with my MPGs.”)
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