Things categorized as 'Climate policy'
Political change on climate change?
4 I participated in a discussion on NPR's "To the Point" program today, hosted by Warren Olney, about the politics of climate change. Other participants included Frank Newport, editor ...The causes of climate deadlock
13 Over at DotEarth, Andrew Revkin of the New York Times has has posted a commentary I wrote on why, after more than 30 years of climate science, and an ...Climate talks grind to a halt
% The demonstrations and arrests in Copenhagen raise the question of whether the conference is more theater than substance. With China, India and other developing nations boycotting the climate talks in ...As G-8 climate talks fail, some analysts urge a different approach
• At the G-8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy today, leaders of the world's 16 biggest polluters failed to reach agreement on specific targets for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases. The failure ...
Climate schizophrenia erupts at G-8 summit
• At the G-8 summit today, the world's major industrial nations agreed to prevent global temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius — and simultaneously shot down failed to agree ...EPA grants California waiver on greenhouse gas emissions
• Under an EPA ruling today, the State of California will be able to impose strict limits on emissions of greenhouse gases from cars and trucks. The Bush administration had turned ...Will we take the first, small step toward grappling with climate change today?
% One way or another, history will likely be made today when the House of Representatives votes on the Waxman-Markey climate and energy legislation. The bill may not be up to the ...
Head-spinning complexities of cap-and-trade emerge in EPA report
% In shorter run renewables don't grow under the plan — but nukes and coal do Nukes may be one winner in climate and energy legislation now being considered in the ...
If cap-and-trade is cheap, how does it stop climate change?
6 More flaws in the Waxman-Markey climate legislation emerge I've come back from vacation to find that the cap-and-trade debate rages on — today with Paul Krugman of the Times entering the ...
There he goes again
7 UPDATE 5/27/09: See Roger Pielke, Jr.'s description of Joe Romm's 180 degree turn on cap-and-trade policy, particularly the use of offsets. Two excerpts: I’ve come to depend upon Joe Romm for ideological ...
Global warming could be twice as bad as projected
4 Study in the Journal Climate received very little press attention The roulette wheel on the left, produced by MIT researchers and based on a new study, depicts different probabilities ...Cap-and-trade hangover
6 Two days ago, I drank the cap-and-trade Kool-Aid, spiked by a generous portion of climate modeling. I wrote that if the legislation likely to pass a House committee today ...The cap-and-trade Animal House
2 Yesterday, my colleague and friend Keith Kloor posted an hysterical send up of some of the players in the climate debate. He pictures a "Democratic politician (Waxman-Markey) at the wheel ...
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