by Judith Curry
The effects of climate change are already being felt across the nation. In the past three decades, the percentage of Americans with asthma has more than doubled, and climate change is putting those Americans at greater risk of landing in the hospital.
by Judith Curry
We know that climate change is a problem – but how big a problem is it? We have to answer this question before we can make a good decision about how much effort to put into dealing with it.
Posted in Climate change impacts, Policy
by Judith Curry
How to gain clarity when making decisions in uncertain and complex situations.
Posted in Policy, Uncertainty
by Judith Curry
We polled 130 environmental attorneys and law professors from around the country about the legality of the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed Clean Power Plan. The results might surprise you. – Brian Potts and Abigail Barnes
by Judith Curry
I’m attending an interesting conference in Nottingham: Circling the square: universities, the media, citizens and politics.
Posted in Communication, Policy, Uncertainty
by Judith Curry
I am just about to head to London, to make my presentation in the House of Lords: State of the Climate Debate in the U.S.
by Judith Curry
Most reactions ignore the fact that the G8 leaders already agreed to “the goal of achieving at least a 50% reduction of global emissions by 2050” in advance of the Copenhagen climate summit in 2009. (You judge the results.) – Michael Levi
Posted in Policy
by Judith Curry
Long-term strategies should be built not on “visions” of the future but instead on the premise that longer term predictions (that is, forecasts of situations years and decades out), however presently credible, will probably prove wrong. – Richard Danzig
Posted in Policy, Uncertainty
by Judith Curry
Do we have the resources (from, say, economics or ethics) to answer these sorts of questions?
by Judith Curry
When did the EPA become our Nation’s energy regulator? When did the EPA acquire both the statutory mandate from Congress and the required subject-matter expertise to do FERC’s and the States’ jobs? When did the EPA gain the expertise to determine the optimal and most reliable mix of coal and natural gas power plants? When did the EPA acquire the expertise to determine how much power can (or should) be reliably generated using wind farms and solar arrays? – Forbes
Posted in Policy
by Judith Curry
If the objective is to change public opinion, then changing elite opinion is a necessary prerequisite. In fact, I would say necessary and sufficient. I don’t think you need to win a war on talk radio to have your impact on right-of-center opinion. – Jerry Taylor
by Judith Curry
Some interesting follow-up questions from the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology regarding my recent Congressional testimony.
Posted in Policy
by Judith Curry
The Pontifical Academy of Science meeting on climate change is raising some interesting issues for Catholics and for humanity.
by Judith Curry
Resolved: That all states have an obligation to anticipate, prevent and minimize the causes of climate change and mitigate its adverse effects.
Posted in Policy
by Judith Curry
The House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space and Technology Hearing on the President’s UN Climate Pledge has now concluded.
Posted in Policy
by Judith Curry
I will be testifying before the House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space and Technology on April 15.
Posted in Policy
by Judith Curry
The American Physical Society has released its draft Statement on Climate Change to the APS membership.
Posted in Policy
by Judith Curry
I’m working to wrap my head around the emerging UNFCCC pledges to cut carbon emissions, in preparation for the Paris meeting next December. Here’s what I’m reading.
by Judith Curry
So, is climate change a local or global threat? Are we risking global ruin?
Posted in Policy
by Judith Curry
I (and others) have characterized climate change as a ‘wicked problem’ – systemic, self-fuelling tangles, which are multidimensional, hard to define and generate new problems when one tries to solve the old ones.
Posted in Policy
by Planning Engineer
A recent posting presented taxonomy of potential policy perspectives around climate/energy policy. The ensuing comments brought home the unfortunate recognition that energy providers have not advocated specific actions and preferred directions for climate/energy policy. I think they have a good story. Why aren’t they telling it?
Posted in Policy
by Planning Engineer
Debates on policy issues around climate and energy often feature opposing sides talking past each other.
All this talk about climate change has misled us collectively. It has made us search for a mega solution to a mega problem: it has created the impression that if we solve the problem of climate change, all other problems would also be solved. This is not the case. – Eija-Riitta Korhola
Posted in Policy
by Judith Curry
Politically correct climate change orthodoxy has completely destroyed our ability to think rationally about the environment. – Richard Tol
Posted in Policy
by Judith Curry
Every aspect of climate change is shaped by ethical dispute: from scientific practice to lobbying and activism and eventually, at national and international levels, the setting and implementation of climate policy. – Peter Lee
Posted in Ethics, Policy, Sociology of science
