September 03, 2008
August 28, 2008
The moral case for a cap-and-trade on greenhouse gasses
They allow everyone to give up whatever he would least miss.
August 21, 2008
Global warming and ordinary prudence
A prudent person doesn't take huge risks to avoid small losses.
July 01, 2008
May 02, 2008
May 01, 2008
Dinde Clinton et dindon Obama à la sauce Krugman
Contra Krugman, there's a good campaign parallel between health care and climate change.
March 14, 2008
February 15, 2008
Chris Field on global warming
Uh-oh. Warming may be moving from a negative-feedback to a positive-feedback regime.
January 31, 2008
Fair winds and foul
A merchant ship sets off with a working kitesail, while Congress cuts US fusion funding.
January 28, 2008
Muddling through II - a Frenchie alternative
My scenario for British electrical generation: 25 GW of nuclear and 75 GW of wind
December 16, 2007
Libertarian Derangement Syndrome
The Associated Press had a useful article the other day about California Attorney General Jerry Brown's ongoing climate change lawsuit against automakers. The central idea here is that carbon emissions from automobiles constitute a "public nuisance." Although these suits do pose some interesting legal problems, they do not represent a major doctrinal change--at least for the plaintiffs. The people who...
November 13, 2007
Working the refs: Climate Change Edition
Andrew Revkin of the New York Times seems to be a conscientious, intelligent reporter. He has a good blog on environmental issues, and strives to be, well, fair and balanced. Which is the entire problem. Revkin has recently announced that there is a group of "environmental centrists" who have tried to take the climate change debate away from the "yelling...
October 09, 2007
September 17, 2007
June 12, 2007
To repairing used planet: $99,928
Why the price of solar panels hasn't fallen, and strange public research priorities.
June 10, 2007
A radical thought experiment in halting climate change
A benevole t world dictator tackles climate change.
November 15, 2006
Stern report 3: sensitivities, sceptics, and Doomsday
Stern report on climate change: sensitivities, sceptics, and Doomsday, third post in a series
November 12, 2006
Stern report 2: the ABC
Stern report, comment 2 in a series: a capsule of the consensus about where we stand today.
November 09, 2006
Stern report 1: why has Sir Humphrey turned green?
Stern report on the economics of climate change: first part of a multi-post comment
August 31, 2006
Terminator goes pale green
Schwarzenegger's welcome but unimpressive plan to curb greenhouse emissions.
July 26, 2006
Ethanol policy for hot weather
This post invites notices of the best ethanol vehicles for a really hot summer afternoon and evening. We know about Sangria, gin and tonic (and that it must be made with Tanqueray), mint julep and rum punch (and that they are very strong and deceptively so), bloody Mary, and thanks to NPR last week, the Pimm's cocktail. What about more...
September 15, 2005
Global warming: the albedo option
Instead of trying to avoid trapping the energy from sunlight after it gets to the surface of the Earth, why not try to reflect a little more of it away before it gets here?
October 02, 2002
Global warming, or the big chill?
Just when Tom Schelling had almost convinced me that sacrificing a lot of other things now to prevent global warming in half a century probably didn't make sense on either equity or efficiency grounds, Brad Delong points to a really scary scenario about changes in the Great Ocean Conveyor and the Gulf Stream. Apparently we could be in for...
