Collide-a-scape » Blog Archive » Collide-a-scape >> Why U.S.

I have been struck by the similarities between the national impasse on climate policy and the breakdown of policy on nuclear waste disposal. The two cases are by no means identical, but perhaps we can learn useful things from both the ...
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Blog Archive » Collide-a-scape >> Inside the Climate Skeptic Mind

If, as we suspect, skeptics invoke climate frames that resemble abortion politics, this has serious policy implications. As long as members of the skeptic movement are included in the policy debate and sway the opinions of some ...
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Collide-a-scape » Blog Archive » Collide-a-scape >> Congressional

Climate Change: Examining the processes used to create science and policy. That's going to be quite a show, given the deliberate bundling of science and policy. Roger Pielke Jr. should be able to feast on this one, while the witness ...
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Collide-a-scape » Blog Archive » Collide-a-scape >> A Climate Myth

A bunch of things doomed Copenhagen, such as oversized expectations and what Roger Pielke Jr. calls the iron law of climate policy, but the East Anglia hack? Hardly. Nor can it be blamed for legislative collapse in the Senate last year, ...
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Going Cheney on Climate Threat – Collide-a-scapeGoogle Alerts – climate policy

China is doing more on the clean energy front and this is unquestionably in part due to its ability to avoid the morass of special interests that infect energy policy politics in democratic countries. Just because that is so, however, ...
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The Bipartisan Climate Project – Collide-a-scapeGoogle Alerts – climate policy

The point of a Bipartisan Climate Project on the web is that it would be a civil platform for strong and varied voices across the spectrum to co-exist and converse with one another. Given that we have a lull in the political/policy ...
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Buying Political Time for Climate Action – Collide-a-scapeGoogle Alerts – climate policy

It might also be more useful to the larger climate policy and political debate. Climate activists and establishment influentials might be inclined to get behind a change in strategy if they knew “buying time” meant a decade or so, ...
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Collide-a-scape » Blog Archive » Collide-a-scape >> Who's Got Game?Google Alerts – climate policy

In recent posts, I've wondered aloud if the stalled policy and political action on climate change presented a window for alternative proposals to gain a fresh hearing. After all, as Tom Yulsman, noting the groundhog day element to the ...
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Collide-a-scape » Blog Archive » Collide-a-scape >> Can Grist Google Alerts – climate policy

Pielke, author of The Climate Fix, says that to repair climate policy, we need to shift the debate from meaningless targets toward a revolution in how the world's economy is powered, neutralizing the venomous politics surrounding the ...
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Collide-a-scape » Blog Archive » Collide-a-scape >> A Crossroads Google Alerts – climate policy

I do not dispute climate science nor diminish its concerns. I think it is beyond doubt, however, that climate is an impossibly poor basis for policy or the measurement of its success. Why energy? A lot of us boomers grew up with the ...
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