Climate Policy

Pielke is more successful in puncturing overinflated ideas and identifying critical challenges than setting forth a positive agenda for climate policy. As he himself admits, he is only providing a “rough outline.” ...
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My climate policy would be to set the price of oil and energy equivalents at $100 in 2011 dollars with the price being supported by a tax. Revenues from the tax would be rebated to wage earners in proportion to the amount of FICA they ...
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How Progressives Misunderstand Much Conservative Skepticism of Climate Policy · Jonathan H. Adler • November 8, 2010 6:51 pm. In yesterday's Washington Post, Bracken Hendricks of the Center for American Progress laments widespread ...
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Doctrinaire environmentalists are concerned, but some thoughtful progressives seem to realize this sort of non-regulatory approach to climate policy may be the only game in town. (See also here.) Those truly concerned about the ...
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And for climate policy, I don't think anything much has changed. We know humans have a significant role in changing the climate, but also that the future risks of such interventions cannot and will not be precisely described. ...
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On Saturday I participated in a panel on climate change policy, “Environmental Protection in a Climate of Change,” at the American Constitution Society's National Convention in Washington, D.C. In addition to yours truly the panel ...
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My climate panel had a similar structure – various panelists summarized and evaluated climate policy developments without explaining why a given approach or agenda should be preferred. It is almost as if at an ACS panel, ...
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This is partiuclarly true in areas, such as climate change policy, where policymakers have embraced policy goals far beyond existing technological capacities. Interestingly enough, during the 2008 Presidential campaign it was Senator ...
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Speaking of those who pretend as if climate science supports their preferred policy agenda, and no other, Joe Romm of the Center for American Progress has been challenged to debate climate policy with Roger Pielke Jr. to be hosted by ...
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If we are to have a serious and honest debate about climate policy, we have to have more honest and responsible conduct by climate scientists. While ClimateGate and the above-mentioned IPCC errors may have been the work of only a ...
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