Category Archives: Economics

Last week, a U.S. federal court upheld the approach that the government uses to calculate the social cost of carbon when it issues regulations [link]. The models appear to have seriously overestimated the social cost of carbon.

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Posted in Economics

Assessment of Approaches to Updating the Social Cost of Carbon

Posted on June 7, 2016 by curryja | 224 comments

by Judith Curry

Some new analyses are shedding some light on deficiencies in the approach to estimate the social cost of carbon.

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Posted in Climate change impacts, Economics, Sensitivity & feedbacks

Iatrogenic (?) climate policy

Posted on November 18, 2015 by curryja | 461 comments

by Judith Curry

So, is the climate ‘cure’ worse than the climate ‘disease’?

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Posted in Economics, Policy

Will the President’s Clean Power Plan save consumers money?

Posted on August 10, 2015 by curryja | 273 comments

by Dave Rutledge

On August 3, President Obama declared that “under the Clean Power Plan, by 2030, renewables will account for 28% of our capacity,” and “will save the average American family nearly $85 on their annual energy bill in 2030.”

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Posted in Economics, Energy

Lomborg’s Senate testimony

Posted on July 30, 2014 by curryja | 496 comments

by Judith Curry

Because there is no good, cheap green energy, the almost universal political choices have been expensive policies that do very little. There is much greater scope for climate policies to make the total climate cost greater through the 21st century. – Bjorn Lomborg

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Posted in Economics, Energy