Climate Policy

By ANDREW C. REVKIN A few days ago, I had a short e-mail exchange with Vaclav Smil, a master analyst of risks and resources, on strokes and aging, climate policy, the global debt crisis and a few other light subjects. I've excerpted our chat below in ...
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By ANDREW C. REVKIN [June 16, 12:45 am | Updated A lead author, Dan Kammen, has defended the report below, and the co-chairman of the climate panel working group dealing with climate policy, as well as Greenpeace representatives, have added comments, ...
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In the meantime, it's worth considering the implications for climate and energy policy of a possible protracted downturn in the flow of energy to the Earth. [5:14 pm | Updated As Stefan Rahmstorf, a German climate scientist, explained in an e-mail late ...
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[Biesecker send a long, detailed and technical rebuttal of the three analyses, which I've posted in full.] In the meantime, it's worth considering the implications for climate and energy policy of a possible protracted downturn in the flow of energy to ...
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... news reports from a meeting of solar scientists in New Mexico, three separate lines of analysis point to decent prospects for a sustained downturn in solar activity, with important potential implications for Earth's climate, and for climate policy. ...
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On the witness stand was Todd Stern, the Obama administration's climate change envoy, who was questioned on whether the nation's climate policy should focus on reducing the more than 80 percent of carbon emissions produced by the natural world in the ... See all stories on this topic »

New York Times (blog)

Hoping to find a way around the current political impasse on climate change and energy policy, a former top adviser to President Obama has devised a policy proposal to drive down greenhouse gas emissions from the utility industry over the next 20 years ... See all stories on this topic »

New York Times (blog)

The paper calls for four steps that will be familiar to anyone who follows climate policy: a carbon tax or cap-and-trade system; more money for research and development; more efficient regulations; and negotiations with foreign countries over similar ...
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He is now part of a group proposing major government reorganization and other measures to reframe the debate over energy and climate policy. The group includes the retired senators Byron Dorgan, Democrat of North Dakota, and Trent Lott, Republican of ...
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(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.) It seems that the more “advanced” a society becomes, ...
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