>> that's the carbon we're interested in. ill stick around for 1,000 years. >> reporter: taking it out of the air is the easy part. plants do that without our help. but here is where john wick's rafrnl, these c ranch, these cows and the marin carbon plan come in. they can transfer more of the plant-based carbon to the ground instead of finding its way back into the air. >> for the first time ever we can look at this problem of climate crisis as an opportunity to transfer that carbon from the air into plants and from plants to all kinds of great stuff. >> everybody in. come on. >> he moves this herd of cows quickly not allowing them to overgraze. that way plenty of plant material is left behind eventually returning its carbon to the soil. it sounds simple because it is. >> it's very straightforward, intuitive and probably really low cost, relative to other solutions. that's one of the reasons we're pursuing it. >> reporter: the project's lead scientist, her team of researchers gather plant and soil samples in the field and then

something called the carbon cycle. right now scientists say there is a carbon imbalance. too much of it up there in the form of carbon dioxide that should be up here. >> what if we could take it out of the air and stash it in the ground. >> that's the carbon we're interested in. that will stick around for 1,000 years. >> reporter: taking out of the air is is the easy part. plants do that without our help via photosynthesis. it is here they are researching ways that better land management can be used to transfer more of that plant based carbon to the ground instead of finding its way back into the air. >> for the first time ever, we can look at this problem of climate crisis as an opportunity to transfer that carbon from the air into plants and from plants to all kinds of great stuff. >> for example, whik moves this heard of cows quickly through these pastures, not allowing them to overgraze. that way plenty of plant material is left behind to decay, eventually returning its carbon to the soil. it sounds sill am because it is. >> it's very straightforward, intuitive and pro

members of the staff -- will be recognized for their achievements and their efforts in reducing the carbon footprint. the department leaves the city for this waste, and we're working on strategies to continue to reduce the overall footprint. next month, the superintendent will make a presentation on the department's action plan. next month, we will present the year in review for the department. i wanted to give you a sneak preview into some of the news, that we are particularly proud of. we are expected to conclude the year with a reduction in workers compensation costs, with an almost 11% reduction. this triple of the goal that we set at the beginning of the year. i want to commend the department manager who oversees the workers' compensation program, and i want to talk about the strategies that we have employed, and i will bring the workers comp team back to talk about this a little bit further. the department is committed to save money wherever that we can, and i wanted it -- to command the entire staff for their commitment to the program. we require all the staff to identify modified d

why is it critical for the climate and why is it critical to set a price on carbon? [inaudible conversations] >> yes, prime minister. he continues to interject across the chamber to the gallery >> the member will resume his seat. >> first thank you for the miss speak. usually i do the misspeaks. regrettably, there were so many other people interjecting from both sides of the member was actually still interjecting but he certainly went to think he can take the call. he has been warned and he is now on a slippery slope. i remind members the precursor and i remind members especially those to the chamber the only person that can move for the withdrawal, only a member can be, a motion can be moved to withdraw so if it happens. [laughter] five seen the movement but doing numbers in the chamber under the present circumstance and i'm just making sure i remind people what happens if i have members to support the action myself. the prime minister has the call. >> thank you very much mr. speaker and i think the members for his question though it does now seem some time ago but h

the vertical dead guy. why is that critical to set a price on carbon? >> order. the leader of the house on a point of water, continues to interject to the gallery. the member from canning resume his seat! >> thank you for the information. usually i do the miss speaks. there were so many interjecting that if a member from canning was still interjecting 9 missed that. he certainly jumped to his seat. he has been warned and he is now on a slippery slope. and i remind members that a warning as the precursor for a naming. i remind members especially those up to the rear of the chamber the only person that can move a motion for with the role of a member after naming -- philippe a member -- a motion can be moved to withdraw a member after a naming. [laughter] i have seen plenty of movement about doing numbers under the chamber under the present circumstance. i want to remind people that i made numbers in support of actions myself. the prime minister has the call. >> thank you very much. it was an important topic of climate change and the important reports that came out t

end of the month. >> carbon monoxide is a silent killer. it's a completely odorless colorless gas. >> reporter: at this lowe's in san francisco larry kuhn of first alert teamed up with cal fire to educate homeowners about the new law. >> it takes a tragedy for the awareness to be created and it's nice the state has pro actively put it out there. >> reporter: carbon monoxide poisoning kills 480 people a year and sends 20,000 people to the emergency room across the nation. >> actually that's why i made sure my house was equipped probably about 15 years ago. >> reporter: now it's time to put it in your house? >> yeah. i think. so. >> reporter: now fire officials say it's time to put one in yours. in san francisco mike mibach, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> in news of the world tonight in yemen president ali abadie saleh has reportedly left -- ali abdullah saleh has reportedly left the country. a ceasefire is in place mace between the government and tribal leaders and reformers demanding saleh's ouster. >>> in libya aerial attacks have been carried

and in terms of carbon footprint, it's the 4,900 metric tons annually of carbon that will be sequesteredse of this project. that's the equivalent of 800 football fields filled with pine trees. >> wow. tell us about chevron's involvement, because you've partnered with chevron, and how big of a no-brainer was this to do that? i mean, i've seen these parking structures that we're looking at right now here on camera, and i mean, it's phenomenal. why didn't we think of this before, i guess? >> well, the opportunity came recently with a series of rebates that were available from pg&e, and our district put the money down to sign up for those rebates and followed through with a contract with chevron energy solutions to build the project. >> go ahead. >> and we're very happy that they were able to come in, completed the project six months ahead of schedule. it's producing 14% more energy than what was projected, and it will save $43 million over the life of the project. that's 25 years. >> that's awesome. but for those of you who might be naive a little bit about kilowatts and megawatts and what

third, evaluation of the car and footprints, and opportunities for -- evaluation of the carbon footprint, an opportunity aged big and opportunities for mitigation of that. if we go forward with the project, we need to do this in a transparent white. the conclusion of this -- we need to do this in a transparent way. the conclusion of this is we need to determine if the project is worth pursuing forward. as a final note, our four partner agencies already have a proposed memorandum of agreement as well, but i would recommend you to approve it and we do participate in this study. i am available to answer questions. president vietor: our the parameters of the study determined. -- how are the parameters of the study determined? >> back in 2003, we tried to determine who was interested in salted water, that was the first step. the second step was what technology it was available to do it? was it possible to do it? could you connect water systems for some regional benefit? a number of those issues were worked through over time, and in 2009, there was a pilot project at contra costa water distric

. >> pg&e web site tout claim at smart program as way of allowing its customers to offset the carbon or 60 dollars a year rate payers contribute to project that protect the environment. project like the garcia river forest near point arena 8. we can use car bop offset to slow down harvest levels. >> taxpayers already have paid to protect and selectively logged this 24,000 acre forest. california provided the virginia base conservation fund with nearly 50 million dollars in loans and grnts through taxpayer funded bond money. the fund is non-profit committed in 1985 to invest in variabilityal projects. california watch reporter uncovered the story. >> conservation fund realize they could make more money off the land by selling carbon credit off of it. >>reporter: that angers rate payer advocate at the utility rae form network or turn. >> with what we are concerned about is that it sounds like double counting. >>reporter: turn executive director tony has long questioned the climate smart program. he worries that the 30,000 resident and business customers enrolled in the climate smart pro

the p.a. from lebanon carbon dioxide lucia from the opening and outs of arsenic in mercury you know overwhelmingly people are in favor of these sorts of things that i think credibly entitle position to hold it's if you think that our lead is going to face a passionate backlash or or is the bet that the republicans are making you know years an eternity in politics voters' attention spans are short we have nationally t.v. and that most people don't even pay attention to what politicians are doing until three weeks before the election and berlet is just figures he can get enough money from the koch brothers to write enough ads to you know what bush will be right because that's exactly what apple is you know they're hoping that they can continue with this you know anti regulation broderick that they can now continue denying science and then me when it comes to actually doing things their particular constituents want they hope that people have short memories and then just do the things they like anyway it's amazing three thanks so much for being with us i appreciate it as to which are. the republican w

mixing with the carbon dioxide dust the most combustible chemical compound.am: they are ensuring that those pearls are secure and monetary air quality in the year. >> johnson & johnson is pulling extra-strength tylenol. the wooden pallets used to store and transport goods is possibly to blame for the odor of mold and the chance of serious sickness is remote. last year, the same odor. the recall was also ordered. >>jacqueline: of finally warmer conditions beckon to the forecast. at a glance at dense close to the coast. finally warmer conditions- back into the forecast. noon back to the coast but the fog will stay along the coast for most of the day. sunny, warm, as temperatures 5-20 degrees warmer than what we saw, today. taking a look at temperatures throughout the bay area. 80s in novado. 80s in concord. a been 60s in-even--60s in the north bay. and this warming trend will continue. taking a look at a san francisco. 70 degrees on friday and continuing to climb. 76 on the sunday and also to warm up through san jose. upper 80s and low 90s by sunday. the same t

can capitalize because you don't have to invest on electric cars or transit or whatever to reduce the carbon dioxide, because the emissions of bicycle is zero. there is a huge problem in the u.s. by traffic noise. a lot of people are not aware of it but the effects for people being constantly having traffic noise are enormously. also, in the netherlands productivity loss because the effect that, for instance, in amsterdam, so many people cycle means that there will be a lot less congestion. when you have ever visited amsterdam, see all of these people cycle and who think what would happen if all of these trips would have to be made by car, then there would be no more amsterdam economy because no one would be able to move about. there would be one giant traffic jam all day. so the bike is the grease in the amsterdam economy. you have to build less highways, you have to build less parking garage. you put the bike -- use very little space. where you have to build parking garage, they're very expensive. there are recent surveys that companies pay up to 30,000 euros, that's $50,000 per year per p

where i would always question whether the exists when the carbon has twenty three multi-millionaires and when they have members themselves who have benefited in the past by playing fast and loose with. all the ego clearly not morrow therefore i don't actually believe there is a political will of this government to actually ensure that the rich should pay for the problems that the rich coursed but the banking sector should pay for the problems the banking sector caused and as we're doing this interview i have members on fifteen thousand pounds a year struggling to make ends meet they don't have holidays facing having their pensions slashed when they see bankers who are already million as trousering millions more and donna says that's got to be fundamentally unfair since the crisis britain has entered into a new war in a foreign country and recently the air force said he needed more money to sustain a campaign in libya and. do you think there is a moral vacuum in westminster that causes these kinds of things to happen that the government would cut spending and to enjoy another war while

overall win the windies will take heart ahead of next monday's test against the same opposition the carbon squad won the toss and put india at the box some with the likes of such and. saying missing the west indies. with early and two wickets would fall before the kohli rohit sharma partnership would make a solid cut into the windies bowling ranks clearly feeling just stuff a dozen runs short of his century in the eventually all out for two hundred fifty one. darren bravo would take the game right to the world champions with bottom hand sarwan helping themselves to seventy five off ninety four balls before having to retire with from after this bus tour bravo was more than adept than picking up eighty six runs to the left hander unself the windies pinching the win by seven wickets but not the series three. basketball on its celebration time for the newly crowned n.b.a. champions the dallas mavericks. showing up for the historic occasion commemorating the franchise's first ever title the surprised many when they upset the star studded miami heat's to claim the trophy the moment particularly

overall win that windies will take heart ahead of next monday's test against the same opposition the carbon squad won the toss and put india eye to but some of the likes of such until her m.s. dhoni on john saying missing the west indies set up by thirty with early intent to wickets would fall before the corrupt coolio rohit sharma partnership would make a solid cut in the windies of bowling ranks following just half a dozen runs short of his century with india eventually all died for two hundred and fifty one. run no rush sarwan and darren bravo would take the game right to the world champions with pot in hand sarwan helping himself to seventy five off ninety four balls before having to retire with from this but not to worry as bravo was more than adept in taking up the slack eighty six for the left hander the windies clinching the win by seven wickets but not the series going going three two one for. meanwhile the world rally championship makes a stop in greece this weekend with the main action due to begin on friday sebastian loeb set the pace for events a crapola style meeting throws hi

overall win the windies will take heart ahead of next monday's test against the same opposition the carbon squad won the toss and put india but someone the likes of such intend m.s. dhoni and harbored saying missing the west indies set apart their task with early intent to it gets would fall before the verge coley were only a charm a partnership would make a solid cut in the wind. yes bowling ranks falling just half a dozen run short of his century with india eventually all art for two hundred and fifty one run the rest so on and darren bravo would take the game right to the world champions with bought and hand sorrow and helping themselves to seventy five or ninety four balls before having to retire with crump after this. but not to worry as bravo was more than adept in picking up the slack eighty six runs for the left hander the windies clinching the win by seven wickets but not the series they went on three two in that one. meanwhile the world rally championship makes a stop in greece this weekend swith me an auction to begin later and fry this question loeb set the pace for event a cro

should have the right to regulate carbon dioxide as a people. i mean other words it is because carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas and it produces will be i mean it's not something that we inhale it causes cancer isn't that it's a pollutant in that it is damaging the world so you have this supreme court ruling on this really on the legality of this law and and you have the functional reality of it and new information came out just today about global warming is from the international energy agency that last year we will we released into the atmosphere thirty point six gigatons thirty point six billion tons of carbon dioxide more than ever before and now scientists are saying you know that two degrees celsius that we said would be a disaster we're now worried that you know there's no way to stop that and we're going to try and hold the whole bike at four degrees celsius and and which is right in chicago there you know swamp trees because they're going to have the climate of baton rouge you know. none of this takes into consideration the extra analo

the third evaluation is the carbon footprint, a concern to all of us, and since desalinization is a high energy user, what are the implications there for this project, and then four, starting to have a public outreach plan. my anticipation would be in about 18 months when this study is complete, that the the time when san francisco and the other party would really have to decide if they see a project here that they really want to pursue as a project. i joke a little bit with the other parties that it has been easy to study because about half of the money comes from the state of california, but we are getting past that we now, where people have to put in real money for a real project that they want. we were interested in 9 million per day for study purposes. we would be looking at a specific number for this project if we choose to pursue it based on information available, so the item before you today is to sign a memorandum of agreement with the other parties in the amount of $200,000 for a series of studies, at which point we will be in a position to decide if we want to invest in this t

>>barnett: well the carbon tax is an issue where most in australia, myself included, believe we are getting ahead of international policy in that area. i am also very skeptical as to whether a carbon tax will actually bring about fundamental change in consumers or indeed in production. and i would prefer, for example to see australia take simple measures to increase the use of natural gas for power generation in australia. i think that will have a more certain effect and would be largely costless to the australian consumer. >>scott: have you ever thought of seceding from australia as a whole. >>barnett: no, and while western australia did vote to secede in the 1930s, it didn't happen and i don't support secession. but i think what is happening is western australian is, by default, becoming far more financially independent. and unless the commonwealth government recognizes that and has some fairness in commonwealth state relations it is inevitable that the australian federation will weaken. and a line that i often use is that, western australia looks over the horizon to asia, not over the nu

let's do it again here at the upper yard at the carbonic, across the street from the carbine, build some more affordable housing. thank you very much. [applause] >> good evening to all of you here assembled. it is a fantastic evening in san francisco, california, isn't it? and there will not glad we live in america where we have the freedom of choice? a meeting like this cannot happen in some countries, so we are glad that we are americans. in the third vice president of the san francisco grand naacp. this is my neighborhood. i know where the mayor's office is because the naacp san francisco branch -- we have been there pleading our cases before him, and, supervisor avalos, thank you for all that you have done for this community. i have a business, a beauty salon in this area. i have been there 37 years. i have grandchildren. my grandson works with the inner city youth. i have a granddaughter that will start school here in the fall, but she is a student, along with my great-grandson, who is in preschool and going to kindergarten. so i have a lot invested in this community. so my plea to

it is a way of allowing the customers to off set the carbon foot prent. can protect the environment and projects like the garcia forest. >> we can use carbon to slow down. >> taxpayers already have paid to protect and selectively logg the 24,000 acres forest. they provided it with loans and grants through taxpayer funded money it is created in 1985 to invest in environmental projects. susanun uncovered the story. >> that angered rate paying advocates. why are concerned that it sounds like double counting. >> and they had long questioned the program. he worries that they are taken advantage of. >> all pg&e has done is paid for the project that is protected. they can be assured they are investing in things that make a difference to the environment. >> the commission requires us to only invest in projects where the benefit and metigation measures are in the future going forward. it is important that they have not been already implemented. >> the utility allows them to protect the foreof the. they would manage the cost. >> and talk about the control. and fire

now the problem is that the rate of change that we're seeing at the moment in the quantities of carbonxide flown into the atmosphere and then being absorbed in the oceans are so high that it's very difficult to actually compare what's going on now what has happened in the past, but we do know that disturbances in the carbon cycle, if you like, have been a feature of past mass extinction events. >> what are some of the say top three or four things that are needed to be done in order to reverse what this report says is likely to happen? >> well, first of all, actually we have to get carbon emissions reduced and reduced very, very quickly. we also have to get control of many of the activities that are impacting the oceans so this means better management of fisheries, really a much more cautious approach about what we throw into the oceans, and this is also linked with land use, better management of the high seas, these are the parts of the ocean that belong to everybody on the planet, it's their common heritage of mankind if you like. >> ipso scientific director professor alex rogers, tha

how big is the carbon foot print? we know a lot of information about the delta. what if we did have this intake by the delta? contra costa, when the salinity is very low, they use it so it's an existing intake. >> i would support this as a reasonable compromise to get us going. commissioner caen: there are two ways to go. one might be to take this as a compromise where we vote on this and possibly pass it with the caveat that there is a public workshop. the other is maybe we put this off the agenda for the next meeting or next month and in the interim there is an outreach effort that happens wpt public and with potentially the other staff at the other agencies to make sure this study is tight and that all the community concerns are embedded into the study so that all the questions are answered that are outlined in the letter, as i believe they will be, but if there's anything else to make sure the public has participated in the process but to make sure that even with a full agenda that it would happen in short order. so i guess i want to get a sense from other co