PERC (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 …
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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 |
 Leave a commentThe Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, created by the UN back in 1988 to investigate the then-startling hypothesis that CO2 emissions could fry the planet, is the most comprehensive source of science on the subject. But there are plenty of folks (including some climate change believers) who argue that IPCC … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: climate change deniers, Climategate, InterAcademy Council, IPCC | Category: Climate Change |
Leave a commentClimate change arguments may not be making much headway with a public that won’t – or simply can’t – pay attention to the really, really bad things global warming might do to the planet in the year 2050. But that’s not stopping activist scientists or their denier counterparts from trying … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: climate change deniers, iPhone, Our Climate, Skeptical Science | Category: Climate Change, Quick Takes |
Leave a commentThe United States isn’t the only country that has difficulty staying on track on energy and climate change. Writing in the Parliamentary Brief Online, Pierre Noël and Michael Pollitt (both at Cambridge) outline how Britain’s ambitious (and, in large part, sensible) energy and climate policies … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: energy policy, Michael Pollitt, Parliamentary Brief, Pierre Noel | Category: Climate Change, Quick Takes |
Leave a commentThe very modest (to say the least) achievements of the Copenhagen climate meeting last December raised the issue of whether a comprehensive global agreement on climate change was realistic. Or even desirable, if the only way to bring everybody on board was to water down the provisions so much that … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: climate modeling, Copenhagen conference, Dritan Osmani, Richard Tol, Scott Barrett | Category: Climate Change, Quick Takes |
Leave a commentSen. Lisa Murkowski (Rep. from Alaska) has been leading the charge to block the Environmental Protection Agency’s initiative to regulate green gas emissions, and it now looks like she’ll get an up-or-down vote on the issue by early June. We’re not entirely unsympathetic: virtually all supporters … Europe’s cap-and-trade system effectively puts a price on carbon emissions by requiring emitters to buy permits on the open market. Trouble is, the price has fluctuated wildly, peaking at €30 in 2008 and slipping to just €8 last year, making it hard to plan and undercutting incentives for … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: British Conservative Party, cap-and-trade, carbon emissions permits | Category: Climate Change, Quick Takes |
Leave a commentJody Lipford and Bruce Yandle wonder why everybody’s fussing about the need for climate change legislation, arguing that past experience with other pollutants suggests that the best way to mobilize public efforts on environmental issues is to maximize economic growth. They’re right about dirty air, … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: Bruce Yandle, carbon emissions, Economic Growth, Jody Lipford, PERC | Category: Climate Change, Quick Takes |
One commentRobert Stavins challenges the current conventional wisdom that climate change legislation is dead for the foreseeable future. From his lips to Gaia’s ears… We’re of two minds about EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson’s decision to delay imposition of curbs on carbon emissions, based on the EPA’s authority under the Clean Air Act. On the one hand, the reality that the EPA (in consultation with the White House, we presume) has backed … By Robert Hahn, Peter Passell | Tags: cap-and-trade, carbon emissions, Clean Air Act, Environmental Protection Agency | Category: Climate Change |
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