With 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 …
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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 |
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 … |
Professor Dieter Helm (Oxford) is a very fine fly fisherman, and an even better economist. If you haven’t done so, take a look at his new book “The Carbon Crunch: How We Are Getting Climate Change Wrong — and How to Fix It” for a bit of unconventional wisdom. He argues that politicians and the general public have not shown any real interest in addressing climate change. Helm argues that places like Europe should focus on setting a price for carbon that would cover consumption (and not just production), and that fracking could be a good “bridge” technology for reducing consumption of coal. The book is readable and insightful for those interested in the inside track on climate policy. 
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