Climate Policy

(The question extends well beyond climate policy; as I did the other day, I encourage you to listen to a great recent discussion of financial bubbles and busts on Leonard Lopate's radio show.) Several other comments deserve extra ...
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A scientist warns against shifting the climate focus too far from the central challenge, curbing carbon dioxide.
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First stop, climate (mis)communication. Two sessions explored a focal point of this blog, the interface of climate science and policy, and the roles of scientists and the media in fostering productive discourse. ...
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What better way to reflect the tough decisions in almost any arena — from bridge building to climate policy — where costs have to be weighed against benefits? It's easy to say, well, Topchik was employed at a private school where ...
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With Republicans controlling the House, with stasists on energy and climate policy looking forward to a couple of years in which they are likely to get their way, I thought it worthwhile starting the year by exploring a couple of ...
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Our system celebrates fire, male, striving, controlling, besting and it badly out of balance. What we need is balance between fire and nurture. Do you see a way to cut through divisive fights over issues like energy and climate policy? ...
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I noted that meshing the needs of the world's least enabled communities with climate policy can be a tough go, given that in many places the need for access to cheap, safe energy — fossil or otherwise — will transcend the need to ...
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In short, the paralyzing budget deficit, the weak economy and the lack of bipartisan agreement on climate policy will make for an interesting set of negotiations in terms of developing and funding a broad energy policy. ...
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They can feel free to get into the policy debate, as well, but there it's vital (to my mind as a 25-year observer of fights over climate policy) to distinguish when one's wearing the scientist hat and the citizen hat (as parent, ...
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Thomas Schelling, a Nobel Prize winner in economics who has long studied climate policy and diplomacy, told me last year that the way forward must involve much more of what legal scholars call “soft law” than old-style treaty making ...
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