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Category Archives: Climate Change Mitigation
Comment to State Department on Keystone XL pipeline "National Interest Determination"
Secretary Kerry already knows the answer to the question of whether granting a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline is in the national interest: the pipeline is not in the U.S. interest and it is not in the global interest. Climate … Continue reading
Reducing greenhouse gas pollution is the cheapest path in a warming world
Bloomberg's coverage of the leaked draft summary of the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report on climate change mitigation was misleading in several respects. The article tilted its conclusion toward inaction, by ignoring many benefits from mitigation and leaving many harmful impacts … Continue reading
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Moving White House regulatory review away from political roadblocks
Are we seeing a shift in Obama's priorities away from using the regulatory review process to avoid picking fights with special interests? It appears that, under the new administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, the backlog … Continue reading
Koomey: Moving beyond benefit-cost analysis of climate change
Jonathan Koomey's method of ‘working forward toward a goal’, based on analyzing the cost-effectiveness of achieving a normatively defined warming target, is an insightful alternative approach to thinking about the climate change problem that avoids serious limitations of conventional benefit-cost analysis. This … Continue reading
Clean energy: Learning by doing only happens if we DO!
A policy of aggressive deployment of low-emission energy technologies is the path most likely to help the world meet its climate objectives, argues Jonathan Koomey, author of Cold Cash, Cool Climate: Science-based Advice for Ecological Entrepreneurs. Koomey says it's misguided to think that clean … Continue reading
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What does Obama mean by "Sustainable Energy"?
"The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult," President Obama said in his second Inaugural Address on January 21. "But America cannot resist this transition; we must lead it." What is the President thinking of when … Continue reading
Wind back in the sails for wind energy tax credit
The Governors' Wind Energy Coalition, a bipartisan group of 23 state governors dedicated to enhancing the development of wind energy in the U.S., has called on Congress to adopt the Wind Energy Production Tax Credit, scheduled to expire at the … Continue reading
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Aviation and climate change: flying blind
A recent federal court hearing on regulation of greenhouse gases from aviation went unnoticed by the media. In a small federal courtroom in Washington, DC, on November 1, a legal battle was being waged between Earthjustice, representing a coalition of … Continue reading
Climate cliff overshadows fiscal cliff
A recently released PricewaterhouseCoopers (or PwC) report, titled Too Late for Two Degrees?, suggests that, to meet even a goal of a 4° C increase in global mean temperatures the world must quadruple our current rate of decarbonization. (Yes, this is … Continue reading
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A Tale of Two Droughts
Those who think we are powerless to do anything about the 'greenhouse effect' are forgetting about the 'White House effect.''' Was that Barack Obama in 2008? Nope. Republican presidential candidate George H.W. Bush spoke those words 24 years ago this month, as he headed to victory that November.
