Saturday Bullets

• The politics of the American Clean Energy and Security Act from Grist: “In the exact center, according to recent work by two economists, are nine lawmakers. And if the Waxman-Markey climate bill receives a full House vote, any one of them could provide the 218th “yes”—the decisive vote that passes the bill.”
  
  
• Can’t afford a hybrid? Paint your roof white, from Climate Progress.
  
  
• How global warming makes storms more dangerous, parts one and two. (Also from Climate Progress).
  
  
• Bai Kin-moon addresses the World Business Summit on Climate Change via Grist
  
  
• Oil keeps going up and up from Environmental Capital.
  
  
• The challenges of building wind turbines in China... sound a lot like the challenges of doing business in China.
  
  
• Robert Stavins from the Energy Collective, writing about how political giveaways in Waxman-Markey might affect the effectiveness of cap and trade: Despite all the hand-wringing in the press and the blogosphere about a political “give-away” of allowances for the cap-and-trade system in the Waxman-Markey bill voted out of committee last week, the politics of cap-and-trade systems are truly quite wonderful, which is why these systems have been used, and used successfully.