¶ Published Tuesday, February 16th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment ∞ No Comments »
Who thought this could happen, Bill Gates gives a stunning presentation on climate change. Famous for his cluttered slides and disorganized presentations, Gates has seriously improved his game. Soon, he might be toting an iPhone and wearing black turtlenecks.
Here is a rundown of the presentation by design gurus at Duarte. But just look at some [...]
¶ Published Wednesday, January 27th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment ∞ No Comments »
The New York Times has an item on a series of climate change lawsuitsthat are making their way through the courts around the U.S. Already, two federal appeals courts have reversed decisions by federal district courts to dismiss climate-change decisions. One of the cases (Comer v. Murphy Oil USA (5th Cir. Miss. October 16, [...]
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Joseph E. Stiglitz, 2001 Nobel Laureate and Professor in Economics at Columbia University, concludes that world leaders at the Copenhagen climate conference failed not only to reach a binding agreement, but also to agree on how to save the planet. An entirely new strategy is needed, he says, to effectively address climate change:
“Perhaps it [...]
¶ Published Wednesday, December 23rd at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment ∞ No Comments »
Both environmentalists and climate change skeptics should read this opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal by Nigel Lawson, who for years was Chancellor of the Exchequer in Margaret Thatcher’s Government.
Lawson is long-time critic of the Kyoto Protocol and, for a while at least, sided firmly with global warming skeptics. He’s nuanced his arguments in [...]
¶ Published Wednesday, December 16th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment ∞ No Comments »
Eric Reguly of the Globe and Mail reports from Copenhagen that Canada is clearly in the proverbial doghouse. And indeed, one gets the feeling it’s Canada’s amateur hour at the talks. Still, the seemingly unanimous chorus of disapproval is odd, considering that our reduction targets are broadly similar to those of the U.S. [...]
¶ Published Tuesday, December 15th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment ∞ No Comments »
Stephen McIntyre is the Toronto-based editor of Climate Audit, a blog that brings a critical perspective to climate data. He was recently profiled in this Macleans article and in a Toronto Star piece this weekend. Interestingly, according to the article, McIntyre was mentioned over 100 times in the Climategate leaked e-mails from the [...]
¶ Published Monday, December 14th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment ∞ No Comments »
“This is the day that will define our century. Canada is fully acknowledging its historical climate debt and the legal responsibilities that follow. Today, we no longer have to wait for a COP20 or COP100 before the voices of our children are heard. Now that we are friends, I can say it is high time [...]
¶ Published Friday, December 11th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment ∞ 1 Comment »
It’s about politics
¶ Published Monday, December 7th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment ∞ No Comments »
The Copenhagen climate change summit opens today and will run until December 18. Depending on who you read, either the Canadian government won’t buy into “the hype” and won’t be rushed, or will “push for a binding deal.”
Though Climategate still looms in the forefront, members of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC) [...]
¶ Published Sunday, December 6th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment ∞ No Comments »
Martin Wolf of the Financial Times offers three criteria for post-Copenhagen climate change policies to be truly effective.
First, we need prices for carbon that apply over relevant planning horizons. That price cannot be fixed forever, but must change with events. But it needs to be far more stable than in the European Union’s market for [...]
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