Category Archives: Politics

State of the climate debate in the U.S.

Posted on June 15, 2015 by | 307 comments

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.

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Posted in Policy, Politics

Road to Paris: Tracking climate pledges

Posted on April 1, 2015 by | 368 comments

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.

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Posted in Energy, Policy, Politics

The stupid party

Posted on March 24, 2015 by | 383 comments

by Judith Curry

The emergence of candidates for U.S. President in the 2016 election is raising some interesting issues about climate change.

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Posted in Politics

Nonsensus about the Senate’s non consensus on climate change

Posted on January 22, 2015 by | 323 comments

by Judith Curry

On the politicization of ‘climate change’.

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Posted in Communication, Politics

Raw politics of climate change in the U.S.

Posted on January 21, 2015 by | 613 comments

by Judith Curry

President Obama’s State of the Union address, and the reactions from opposing politicians and the media, illustrate the raw politics of climate change in the U.S.

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Posted in Politics

Georgia politicians cool to global warming

Posted on January 2, 2015 by | 803 comments

by Judith Curry

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution asked a dozen of the state’s top elected officials and the director of the agency tasked with the state’s environment whether they believe the globe is warming, and whether they think pollution caused by human activity is a cause.

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Posted in Politics

Climate/Energy Policy and the GOP Congress

Posted on November 16, 2014 by | 639 comments

by Judith Curry

With the Republicans in majority for both Houses of the 114th Congress, what are the implications for U.S. climate and energy policy?

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Posted in Energy, Policy, Politics

Politics of the 2C target

Posted on September 21, 2013 by | 333 comments

by Judith Curry

The modification of the 2C climate target will put an end to the vision of a “science-based” climate policy – Oliver Geden

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Posted in Climate change impacts, Policy, Politics

Big green in denial

Posted on September 7, 2013 by | 308 comments

by Judith Curry

Naomi Klein explains how environmentalists may be more damaging to their cause than climate change deniers.

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Posted in Communication, Politics

U.S. Republicans: critical thinking on climate change

Posted on September 5, 2013 by | 443 comments

by Judith Curry

The U.S. Senate Republicans on the Environment and Public Works Committee have issued a Minority Report entitled Critical Thinking on Climate Change.

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Posted in Politics

Pause politics

Posted on August 30, 2013 by | 250 comments

by Judith Curry

U.S. and European Union envoys are seeking more clarity from the United Nations on a slowdown in global warming that climate skeptics have cited as a reason not to “panic” about environmental changes, leaked documents show.

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Posted in Attribution, IPCC, Politics

JC on NPR

Posted on August 22, 2013 by | 719 comments

I have an interview tonite on NPR’s All Things Considered.

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Posted in Communication, Policy, Politics, Uncertainty

Why conservatives should love a carbon tax

Posted on July 1, 2013 by | 340 comments

. . . and why some of them do. – Ed Dolan

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Posted in Policy, Politics

Have U.S. Republicans shifted strategy on climate change?

Posted on June 27, 2013 by | 619 comments

by Judith Curry

One day after President Barack Obama unveiled a broad blueprint for reining in heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions and adapting U.S. infrastructure for more droughts and floods, Republicans are taking aim at the plan’s economic costs — not the science underpinning it. – Jennifer Dlouhy

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Posted in Politics

Reactions to President Obama’s Climate Change Policy

Posted on June 25, 2013 by | 315 comments

by Judith Curry

President Obama has released his new climate change policy:  Plan to Cut Carbon Pollution – Taking Action for Our Kids.

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Posted in Policy, Politics

Rep. Lamar Smith on climate change

Posted on May 31, 2013 by | 452 comments

by Judith Curry

Last week, Rep. Lamar Smith wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post entitled Overheated rhetoric on climate change doesn’t make for good policies.  Critics are responding with . . . overheated rhetoric.

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Posted in Policy, Politics

Calling out climate change deniers in Congress

Posted on May 27, 2013 by | 777 comments

by Judith Curry

We need to work to curb climate change, and a big step is to raise our voices to change the conversation in Washington. Call these deniers out. Hold them accountable. Ask them if they will admit climate change is a problem. –

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Posted in Politics, Skeptics

How to humble a wing nut

Posted on May 21, 2013 by | 480 comments

by Judith Curry

A central puzzle of modern American politics is why so many voters can maintain strong political views concerning complex policies yet remain relatively uninformed about how such policies would bring about desired outcomes. – Phillip Fernbach et al.

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Posted in Politics, Sociology of science

Climate change and U.S. presidential politics

Posted on September 7, 2012 by | 523 comments

by Judith Curry

So . . .  what do the U.S. presidential candidates have to say about climate change?

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Posted in Politics

Science held hostage in climate debate

Posted on June 22, 2012 by | 522 comments

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by Garth Paltridge

The broad theory of man-made global warming is acceptable in the purely qualitative sense. If humans continue to fill the atmosphere with carbon dioxide, there can be little doubt that the average temperature of the world will increase above what it would have been otherwise. The argument about the science is, and always has been, whether the increase would be big enough to be noticed among all the other natural variations of climate. The economic and social argument is whether the increase, even if it were noticeable, would change the overall welfare of mankind for the worse.

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Posted in Politics, Skeptics

Gore-a-thon

Posted on September 14, 2011 by | 389 comments

by Judith Curry

I was going to try to ignore Al Gore’s 24 Hours of Climate Reality, but I am starting to get queries from journalists.

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Posted in Communication, Politics

Climate boomerangs

Posted on August 23, 2011 by | 477 comments

by Judith Curry

A boomerang effect occurs when a message is strategically constructed with a specific intent but produces a result that is the opposite of that intent.

Both sides of the political debate surrounding climate change in the U.S. seem to be feeling the boomerang effect.

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Posted in Communication, Politics

UN Talks and Power Politics: Its Not About the Temperature

Posted on May 29, 2011 by | 219 comments

by Judith Curry

In the wake of the breaking  announcement that Russia, Japan and Canada told the G8 they would not join a second round of carbon cuts under the Kyoto Protocol at United Nations talks this year and the US reiterated it would remain outside the treaty, it is instructive to took a look at what has been going on in the context of the UNFCCC.

The title of this post comes from a recent hearing from the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

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Posted in Politics

Axing NOAA’s Climate Service

Posted on April 12, 2011 by | 51 comments

by Judith Curry

I have been intending to write a post on NOAA’s proposed Climate Service, but hadn’t gotten around to it.   The announcement today regarding the  final FY 2011 Appropriations deal includes language stating that none of the funds appropriated to NOAA may be used to “implement, establish, or create a NOAA Climate Service.”

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Posted in Policy, Politics

Reactions to Muller’s Testimony

Posted on April 4, 2011 by | 328 comments

by Judith Curry

Last week, Richard Muller testified at the U.S. House of Representatives Hearing on Climate Change: Examining the Processes Used to Create Science and Policy [see here].

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Posted in Data and observations, Politics