Category Archives: Policy

Conflating the climate problem with the solution

Posted on February 3, 2017 | 168 comments

“one of the real tragedies that totally distorted the debate over climate change was that it got tied into the solution in a way that if you accepted the first you had to accept the second. And I think that was profoundly wrong.” – Newt Gingrich

Continue reading →

168 Comments

Posted in Policy, Politics

Ozone attainmnent

Posted on January 29, 2017 | 56 comments

by Roger Caiazza

At this time there is quite a bit of noise about potential problems if Scott Pruitt is confirmed to head EPA because he would “hamstring EPA’s authority to set nationwide environmental standards”.

Continue reading →

56 Comments

Posted in Policy

The Trump shift

Posted on January 25, 2017 | 430 comments

by Judith Curry

A seismic shift is occurring in a number of federal agencies.

Continue reading →

430 Comments

Posted in Policy, Politics

Rethinking the Social Cost of Carbon

Posted on January 17, 2017 | 202 comments

by Judith Curry

The Social Cost of Carbon is emerging as a major source of contention in the Trump Administration.

Continue reading →

202 Comments

Posted in Economics, Policy, Sensitivity & feedbacks

Discussion thread – Social Cost of Carbon

Posted on December 30, 2016 | 242 comments

by David Wojick

The Social Cost of Carbon is absurd but entrenched.

Continue reading →

242 Comments

Posted in Policy

The tragedy of the horizon

Posted on December 21, 2016 | 290 comments

by Judith Curry

Too rapid a movement towards a low-carbon economy could materially damage financial stability: a climate Minsky moment — Mark Carney

Continue reading →

290 Comments

Posted in Policy

King Canute versus the climate planners

Posted on December 20, 2016 | 225 comments

by Judith Curry

On sea level rise, President Obama and King Canute.

Continue reading →

225 Comments

Posted in Policy