to do a big carbon regulation program. they are also thinking of putting in place a carbon tax. >> well, we will talk a little bit about that. steve, so is this a regulatory agenda because i don't think cap and trade, the old program can pass even a democratic senate. it couldn't the first time when they controlled everything. >> yeah, there isra a reason that president obama almost never mentions the words climate change and cap and trade during the campaign, paul, that's because they are political losers. they are big tax increases on workers, on union workers, on manufacturing workers. so the democrats have avoided that issue now that they have won this election. they have sort of sprung it out on people. i still don't believe the votes are there in the united states senate and the house to pass anything like either the carbon tax or by the way the democrats are also talking about maybe an energy tax, like a gasoline tax. there is no political support there. that's why i think kim is right. if they are going to do this

it gives away filters for free, making profits with carbon credits. here's how it works. >> she's been away since six in the morning. now it's nearly midday. molly adhiambo is back from the mountain forests where she's collected nearly 20 kilograms of wood. >> the forest men chase us sometimes. sometimes we give them a little bit of something, even 50 bob, for them to let us pick the firewood. because without firewood we can't survive. >> molly uses the wood to boil dirty water from the river, to kill the bacteria and other microorganisms it contains. she can't get water from a tap. she wants to protect her children from typhus and cholera, diseases that are spread by contaminated water and kill mainly children. molly isn't a unique case. hardly anybody here in western kenya has access to clean drinking water. almost everyone boils it over a wood fire to purify it. buying wood is much too expensive, so they get it from the forests illegally. kenya's forests have shrunk by almost 50% in the last few decades. janet omari wants to change that. for a year

they think that they have a court decision a few years empowers them to regulate carbon. they think they're off to the races here and this suggests to me that maybe the play is, with all of the business community expecting an approval of the keystone pipeline, the president might approve the pipeline, but then really ratchet down on the use of the oil going through that pipeline and i think he might be able to say to environmentalists. >> paul: how would they do that, they won't build this thing if they don't think there's a lot of oil that go through it. >> certainly the people that want that oil are expecting a big market, but if he's at the end of that pipeline, once it goes out into the economy, if the president is severely restricting how it's used, how it's used in transportation, and in manufacturing, as smart b -- senator boxer had said he could say look, the end user is going to get hit hard and he reduce energy consumption and provides the construction jobs for the pipeline. >> can i make a related point here, paul, about the pipeline and carbon change. it's int

because it offers carbon offset and it does good! >> 400 kilometers away lies kenya's capital nairobi. the certificates are sold from here through a partner company and this man, tom morton. morton sells the certificates mainly to businesses in europe and the us -- companies that want to offset their own carbon emissions. he passes on most of the money about 10 million euros in the past year. tom morton considers the water filter project highly sustainable because it's stringently controlled. >> carbon finance is about being paid for outcomes. and if you get it wrong then you are not paid. and so there is a much greater incentive to have a very robust system in place. >> back to western kenya -- to a sporting field. vestergaard frandsen's employees are spreading good cheer. they've organized a football tournament. football is very popular, especially with young people. the occasion is used to acquaint them with the water filter. vestergaard frandsen wants to expand the project in africa. janet, his instructor, is prepared to go abroa

he's using a carbon fiber bow made by yamaha. the company began producing them ten years ago. traditional players were skeptical about the modern bows but the designers saw potential. they're challenged to create an affordable, high quality bow that looks, feels and sounds like a wooden one. designers onlyize every of the best bow. they experimented with carbon sheets, altered the rolling techniques and after trial and e error turned their data into a product. >> translator: there's a lot of things we can do because it's carbon. it's a versatile material. we can be precise and control many variables. once we established the basic techniques question mass produce a high quality bow. that's the difference between wood and carbon. >> reporter: the result, five different bows for different types of players. the developers asked him to test the latest creations before the new year's concert. he prefers a stiffer, heavier bow. he will keep using his carbon bow from earlier series but he applauded the effort to innovate. >> i'm sure there's someone who will prefer this type. you have

emissions caps, carbon emissions price, some kind of action on carbon.bsolutely, the u.s. is the world's biggest economy. china is the world's biggest carbon polluter. u.s. is the world's historical biggest carbon polluter. you will not see a significant reduction globally unless all of these economies act. but the rest of the world is moving ahead and taking action. host: the president of the world bank disappeared on january 24. here is a comment from the "washington post" -- he is the president of the world bank, in a column for the "washington post." frank is next on the democratic line. caller: the lady from minnesota made a lot of sense. i think all of this boils down to with this liberal administration and the liberal politicians as far as john kerry and waxman and -- look, you all know when talking about. it all boils down to money. check their portfolios. see what they are invested in and what they have a chance of losing a great deal of money on if they do not push global warming. oh, i'm sorry, is not global warming anymore. take a look at a m

>> you know, not -- i would like to see a price put on carbon linked to a cap on carbon that guarantees that we have reductions. to me, the trick isn't what the price is, the trick is we've got to get a system in place that mandates reductions. but that's why i'm hopeful because when we try capitalism and put the incentives in place for solar and wind power and geothermal have a level playing field, watch what happens. and in the rest of the world, in the european union in china, 250 million people live in provinces trying cap and trade. in australia, cap and trade, new zealand, cap and trade, south korea implementing a carbon system. we're moving in more and more places to a place where we do what marvin and the governor have called for, where we use capitalism and get the incentives right which we haven't until now done and that makes me hopeful because entrepreneurs harness and prevent what we need to do have a clean planet can give us a clean planet. >> final thought? >> i would echo what they say. the economic drivers are there. i do think it is going to happen at the state level.

he can reduce the carbon emissions, the carbon pollution that's warming our planet, coming from our powerse are the single largest sources of industrial carbon pollution across our country. 40% of the carbon in the country coming from the power plants. the president has the authority under the clean air act to set standards reducing those carbon levels and we have put forth a plan to reduce the levels by 26% by 2020, which would reduce our national carbon footprint by 10%. it would save consumers money. it would make our generating capacity much more efficient. it is the right thing to do. we need to strike a blow against climate change. >> bob, i guess picking up on that point then, so if the epa is empowered to set the new standards on emission, why wasn't this done sooner? second of all, with the failure of cap in trade in the last four years, what are we losing then in terms of emissions by having epa action as opposed to comprehensive cap in trade legislation in what's the difference there? what do we lose without cap in trade? >> what we can do going after the power plants and deali

that is the biggest difference between wood and carbon. >> reporter: the result? five different bows for different types of players. the developers asked to test their latest creations before the new year's concert. ♪ he says he prefers a stiffer, heavier bow and he says he will keep using his carbon fiber bow from yamahaersmahayamaha's earlt applauded the efforts to innovate. >> sure there are players that would prefer that kind of type so we have to build different types. >> translator: i want to give musician as many options as possible, like for this type of player this would be a great fit. and for that type, another bow would be best. i know we can make them all. i still have a lot of things i want to try. >> reporter: other companies have now started fine tuning their own carbon bows. what started out as an alternative to endangered wood is becoming the material of choice for many world-class musicians. rina nakano, nhk world, tokyo. >>> cold weather is dominating much of east asia today. meteorologist robert speta is here tus know if it will warm up or sta

melissa: what about a carbon tax? th sounds like big companies and looters and people using carbon will be the ones to pay the tax that would impt all of us. what impact would it have on the average person and what about the economy? >> what peter was ying was absolutely right. you can ok at the taxes individually and you can say some of them would be a good idea. a vat or carbon tax on their own bases could be a good tax. it is a pile on top of others, there is a problem. why is a carbon tax potentially a good tax becaus of externalities. carbon imposes a lot of cost of other ople, and instead of indirect taxes, the easiest thing to do, the simplest thing to do is just in effect make gas more effective. but theseust become energy stream and one more thing about the carbon taxes, what they do is they often by grandfathering in current polluters, they are a giant giveaway to the friends of the current administration. melissa: is a great point nobody talks about. clearly we could spend all night on this, but i want to m

a carbon monoxide detector within 15 ft. of every room used for sleeping purposes. the bedrooms are on a second floor. state requires lamb arts to equipped apartments with carbon monoxide alarms but it's the responsibility of the tenant to test and provide general made bids for the device the tenet also responsible for the replacement of any required batteries and the carbon monoxide alarms residents we talked to said they heard the detectors going off at 8:00 this morning which may have very well averted a tragedy. the teachers filed and intend to strike last month it teachers' union rep tells the daily herald no job action could have occurred before a union meeting on wednesday. chicago teachers join with community activists today speaking to downsize the system. the chicago teachers union has filed a federal lawsuit accusing cps officials of discrimination. a new battle brewing in congress that could have far more disastrous consequences and relief for victims of superstar sandy is finally on the waysuper storm sandy reli

and that your guess is we are going to be the skies are actually reducing the carbon output faster than the progress is so much in the business are these the business are these the business guys that want to you know drilling and more the business doesn't want to drill off the coast of florida about as if you want to save the planet really sort of her way i mean you know the date how this is i think go ahead we would have always down to is what we saw from the president's speech yesterday was a true real progressive agenda that will move this country forward that's a good voted for and i think that's what he's going to provide now the question is what will happen when john boehner the congress we've already seen the republicans cave on the debt ceiling debate by extending it for three months the question is will they continue to cave and take their medicine realize that they lost in november and if they don't moderate as a party that they're going to lose money. on something that you almost have a gun to their head they lost they better capitulate and give this president everything he w

both had to be treated for carbon monoxide. where was it coming from? in the garage below, somebody had left their parked car inside running for several hours. so basically i was laying in a death trap. >> christy says she never heard a carbon monoxide detector go off. she says that's the first thing she went out to buy. >> one, i'm so appreciative that i'm alive and that she's alive. and i feel so lucky that i can tell my family how much i love them. >> dpooo you have a carbon monoe detector in your home? that's the point christy says she really wants to get across. >> second massive crowd this week. the annual march for life rally kicked off at noon. thousands of anti-abortion demonstrators will march to the capital and the supreme court. this month marks the 40th anniversary of the rowe versus wade decision that legalized abortion. organizers expect this year's attendance to be even higher than that. and if you're near the mall, prepare for delays. several streets between constitution and closed for part protest. the closures start about 9:30 in the

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it is compounds of carbon. these so-called climate changing pollutants, i think there is plenty of research to indicate they have an insignificant effect on climate change. get on our knees and pay homage and get out of our cars. host: who is your father? caller: dr. henry walton from the university of colorado. he taught in the d.c. done of all places. host: talk to us about what he had to say right up until the education of the sudan. guest: well, my point is that we have the means to curb this pollution. and the key issue for the president as he starts his second term, he's been talking about protecting the planet from the overheating, the dangers to our children and our grandchildren from climate change. the key question is what is the policy to take. i mention it had car standards. a major achievement. the thing that we're asking the president to do is use his authority he has under the clean air act to set standards to cut the pollution problem. and we can do this in a fair and flexible way and make a hug

australia is the world's largest exporter of coal, the most carbon in tins of fossil fuel. guardian rights, australians for an average of slightly more carbon per capita than the citizens of the u.s. and more than twice as much as the people of the united kingdom. anna rose, talk about the state of the environmental movement. as you say, nothing will happen until the people push their so- called leaders, but has this massive catastrophic heat wave in australia, bringing you to temperatures to more than 122 degrees fahrenheit, how has it changed the movement? >> some parts of the media that are connecting the dots between extreme weather and climate change, and certainly as climate campaigners and people who try to help others understand what is happening to our planet with climate change, we have been trying to encourage the movement to have those conversations to be able to connect the dots. but of course we have other elements of the media who simply are not making the link at all, and that is where we need to come and remind people that this is a tragedy what we're seein

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our approach has been to focus on carbon. we have this many people know, a cap-and-trade system for major emitting sources which is going to bring fuels under the cap. that will mean that the people who make the fuels will be paying a price for the content of the fuel but it's based on the fuel. it's not based on the volume driven -- is intended to focus on the thing that we need to use less of which is carbon. >> we have time for one more pic question here in the front. >> we representative for idea of technology innovators. quick question for gina and mary. gene of the two or three and proposals seem to be making process and first of all congratulations and it's clear that not everybody is on board so some sense of how the road ahead looks on that. you reference number times the fuel piece of this puzzle, the low-carbon fuel standard is facing litigation. for both provisions the uncertainty for technology innovators is a real challenge seeking investments for the next generation of technologies. can you comment on the path

has to go up with you put a price on carbon. but that has come back to bite him over and over and over again. on subsidies. let's talk about that, subsidizing gasoline. lee raymond has a disdain for the crutch that renewables need to be economic and exxonmobil was company who seems to loathe any kind of crutches. unless they want them for their own. >> host: so the crutches that oil has, a huge debate in congress, and the president is pushing to end tax breaks that oil companies have enjoyed, and they make these enormous profits, why should they continue to have them. did that come in your conversation with raymond at all? pointing out a little bit of hypocrisy there. >> guest: i seal this stale made around the subsidies question. i don't feel like i quite know what to think about it. basically there are some tax breaks that oil companies alone get about how the oil industry in specific terms, but most of these allowances are manufacturing allowances. they just happen to be manufacturers of gasoline as opposed to tractors or som

in the rarts at which they exchange that carbon determines how much carbon is in the atmosphere and thearbon in the atmosphere tracks very nicely global temperatures as we know today and as we see in the past, as well. so, really, carbon is not only something we talk about with green house gases but an important link of all elements and properties of our planet. >> neil, what you said about after we pass, you know, our particles will go in to the universe and become part of sort of everything, it is a very profound and possibly spiritual statement and i don't want to make you uncomfortable, you don't have to answer this but does your science inform your spirituality? do you find that the work you have done influences the way that you view sort of spiritual and supernatural ideas? >> oh, no. that's a fabulous question, actually. i feel deeply connected to the rest of the universe and other living things and that's my science has taken me there. you know? i'm connected to you, to other human beings through the family tree of all humans and we can see that in our dna and connected to monke

carbone's territory has some of the richest towns in the nation.es to the heart of corporate power in new york, but a lot of people walking around in suits haven't had a job in years. >> my job is to get people into a career. >> carbone has more than 12,000 who have spent their last unemployment check with nowhere to go. >> i can't tell you how this bothers me. i can't tell you what this has done to me. it's not just the numbers. it's--scott, it's the stories that you've heard. >> inside, you feel like a part of you has been ripped out from losing a job. >> this is how joe carbone intends to restore their american dream. he calls it platform to employment. it's a half-million-dollar program that he raised the money for from businesses and charities. we went along for five weeks as a class of 28 learned how to claw their way back to employment. >> i was so ashamed to reach out for help because i felt discouraged. i felt ashamed that i had failed. >> vernon downes was a project manager for a company that made medical devices. he's been working to fin

does the rest of the process, chewing up those nutrients in the water and producing nitrogen and carbonat in a system where we're creating 12 to 16 tides per day. >> the wastewater for our building begins its journey by travel tog our primary tank which is a fairly normal looking manhole. beneath these manholes is a 10,000 gallon primary tank. there are two chambers. the trash chamber which filters out the trash and plastics and the organic solids settle out just as normal wastewater treatment process is. the water then flows to an equalization tank, a recirculation tank, and then on to tidal flow wetlands cell 1a. all those these cells look to be only 3 or 4 feet deep, they're actually 8 feet deep below this concrete sidewalk. the water repeatedly cycle into the cell from the bottom up. as the water comes up into this cell, it meets the microbes here to treat the wastewater. they flourish off the organics found in the wastewater. after multiple cycles, most of the wastewater treatment has already occurred and the water then flows to the vertical cells located around the corn iron polk

why both cutting carbon ? host: so an issue that obama is going to be dealing with not just through his e.p.a. guest: absolutely. i think that will be a major role on climate change in the second term. that's partly because if john carrie is confirmed as secretary of state, he brings that as an issue he cares about tremendously. he sees this as a very important legacy issue that he intends to push. but as well, because carbon emissions and global warming are global issue, they are an international issue, it's probably true that we won't see a significant change on this, a significant change on carbon reduction unless it's done with international cooperation. so right now secretary carrie is looking ahead to an expected 2015 u.n. treaty that would be signed by major global warming treaty that would be signed by all of the major polluters. and the hope at least for john carrie and for president obama is that's the time at which the u.s. and china can strike a meaningful deal that will lead to both nation cutting

we don't have a carbon tax. and the -- >> rose: is its carbon tax the way to go. not cap and trade, but carbon tax jathe difference between those are not that critical. >> rose: the idea is put a value on how much carbon you use. there are reasons are to do that. but because of the political realities, either one can be achieved. they both have the same effect, causing you to shift in making your energy in a way. >> you look at germany, and angela mirkle has basically sworn off nuclear energy. >> that is aa setback -- >> rose: you disagree with the decision she made. >> well, with the current generation of reacts, because of the fukushima accident -- >> rose: they're old. >> people are now worried about that. there haven't been that many accidents, so you can have a reasonable disagreement about the current generation. there are generations coming that are inherently in their design form is more safe. if you don't like today's reactors you shouldn't group all the ways of generating nuclear energy that will come out. you shouldn't abandon those as well because we c

to put together rules on reducing carbon pollution in existing power plants. that's a move environmentalists say could reduce carbon-based pollution by 500 tons by 2020. >> pelley: the president says he wants comprehensive immigration reform, which is something that president bush couldn't pull off. how does he intend to do it? >> right now, the president is deferring to a bipartisan working group in the senate that is trying to finalize a comprehensive immigration bill that would have four big goals. first among them, to legalize 11 million illegal immigrants here now, to create a way for businesses to verify the legal status of future workers, and to get future numbers and set them in stone for legal immigration and skills-based immigration. now, the fine details here politically charged though they are, are being worked out in the senate. and right now, the white house is deferring to that working group. >> pelley: major, thank you very much. the president faces an immediate challenge tonight all across north africa. today, u.s. military planes landed in ma