After a decade in which the coal and oil lobbies have frustrated their efforts to put in place a cost-effective policy to slow climate change, environmental groups scored a win last week on a related, high visibility issue. Trouble is, their objective, halting the expansion …
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By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: Canada, crude oil, Keystone Pipeline, tar sands | Category: Climate Change |
 Leave a commentIf you haven’t heard John Nielsen-Gammon, Texas’ official climatologist (and therefore adviser to Rick Perry on the subject of climate change), check out his views. They’re startling only in the sense that they follow directly from the mainstream science — a suspect position these days in … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: climatology, John Nielsen-Gammon, Rick Perry, Texas | Category: Climate Change, Quick Takes |
Leave a commentMichael Levi’s September 14th post on the Council on Foreign Relations site examines whether switching from coal to natural gas could make a decisive difference in climate change projections. You’ll be surprised by his analysis, if not his conclusions. By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: coal, Council on Foreign Relations, methane, Michael Levi, natural gas | Category: Climate Change, Quick Takes |
Leave a commentIrwin Stelzer, an economist and conservative intellectual who isn’t inclined to suffer fools, suggests a carbon tax could help reduce the deficit and enhance national security, even as it stimulates economic growth. Quite so. The problem – or at least one of the problems – is the bitter opposition … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: carbon tax, deficit, Hudson Institute, Irwin Stelzer | Category: Climate Change, Energy, Energy Regulation, Environment |
Leave a commentThere’s plenty to worry about in the implementation of California’s ambitious cap-and trade system to reduce greenhouse gas emissions – in particular, whether it will make the state economy less competitive. But as Harvard’s Rob Stavins explains “environmental justice” (the prospect that the poor will be stuck with … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: AB32, California Air Resources Board, cap-and-trade, environmental justice, Robert Stavins | Category: Climate Change, Quick Takes |
Leave a commentWith progress on reaching a global agreement on greenhouse gas emissions more or less stalled, what should we do now about climate change? Pretty much anything we can think of that meets the test of political reality and passes a benefit-cost test. That, in a nutshell, is the conclusion of … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: Sustainable Consumption Institute, Tom Schelling, VoxEU | Category: Climate Change, Quick Takes |
Leave a commentCouncil on Foreign Relations senior fellow Michael Levi has an MS in physics from Princeton, a PhD in war studies (!!) from King’s College (London) and a book on nuclear terrorism from the Harvard University Press. Nonetheless, his blog on energy security and climate change is … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: Council on Foreign Relations, energy security, Michael Levi, Ngrams | Category: Climate Change, Quick Takes |
Leave a commentWhat a difference a few years can make. With a committed president in the White House and solid Democratic majorities in Congress, climate change legislation based on a market-friendly cap-and-trade system seemed a slam dunk. If, by chance, lobbyists from the energy and utility industries managed to throw a spanner … James Fallows, whose thinking is often unconventional and always interesting, argues in the Atlantic Monthly that coal is here to stay, and that the U.S. should work with China to fashion a “greener future” with the stuff. The goal: a practical way to isolate and store carbon dioxide … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: Atlantic Monthly, China, clean coal, James Fallows, R&D | Category: Climate Change, Quick Takes |
Leave a commentPERC (a.k.a. the Property and Environment Research Center), a 30-year-old think-tank advocate of market solutions to environmental problems, has just unveiled its new blog, The PERColator. Expect an interesting take on many issues – federal land use, water rights, eminent domain, national park access – that reflect PERC’s … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: cap-and-trade, eminent domain, federal land use, H. Spencer Banzhaf, national parks, PERC, water rights | Category: Climate Change, Quick Takes |
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