Research that Informs Business and Public Policy- Creative Pie Slicing To Address Climate Policy Opposition Severin Borenstein
- Coal Mining: Jobs to Die For? Maximilian Auffhammer
- Stop Blaming Drivers for Mexico City’s Smog Lucas Davis
- The Developing World Is Connecting to the Power Grid, but Reliability Lags Catherine Wolfram
Tag Archives: climate change
Mitigation Bingo
I am clearly not a historian, but has there ever been a more dynamic, physically fit and forward-looking trio in charge of North America’s future? It’s not gender balanced, but hey, maybe we can fix that in November. At their … Continue reading
Heat and Happiness
As we Californians snuggle up around our ethanol or natural gas powered fireplaces to survive the barbaric temperatures which are dipping into the 50s, 40,000 people are hanging out in Paris trying to hammer out a new climate accord. Well, … Continue reading
Are We Over-Air Conditioned?
Air conditioning made lots of headlines this summer. In newspaper accounts, internet memes, and office gripe sessions, there was much commiseration about the over-air conditioning of the American workplace…. Someecard Source It seems no one is spared from these polar working … Continue reading
Membership has its Co-benefits
Last week marked the first “informal ministerial consultations” in the run up to the UN climate talks in December. The objective of these informal meetings before The Meeting is to provide the opportunity to find common ground and an organizing … Continue reading
Is Clean Coal Too Expensive?
Policies that subsidize the demonstration of large-scale technologies make economists queasy. Severin explored this topic in a recent blog. In retrospect it’s easy to point to failures, including the United States Synthetic Liquids Fuels Program that died in the 1980s … Continue reading
Building Codes That Work
If I got a dollar each time someone says that California’s energy efficiency codes have led to significant decreases in electricity consumption, I could buy a Tesla to help reverse that trend. In the halls of power, climate regulators discuss … Continue reading
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Tagged air conditioning, building codes, climate change, electricity, energy efficiency
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Good Energy Reading for the Beach?
I used to spend the week between Christmas and New Year’s Eve with my in-laws in Portland, OR. A couple years ago, it snowed for two days straight, and the city shut down. My brother-in-law has taken it upon himself … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, coal, electricity, fracking/hydraulic fracturing, wind
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Clinton (well Gore) went to Kyoto. Obama went to Beijing.
Many of us carbon nerds remember President Clinton’s 1997 remarks announcing that an agreement had been reached at the climate negotiations in Kyoto, Japan. The speech was full of hope and happy economic words like “tools of the free market,” … Continue reading
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Tagged CAFE, carbon emissions, Clean Power Plan, climate change, climate policy, greenhouse gas (GHG)
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Cross-state power flows complicate the Clean Power Plan
The release of the IPCC Synthesis Report earlier this month underscores the need for swift and aggressive action to combat climate change. With the shifting control of Congress, answering that call becomes more of an uphill battle. Image source One … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, emissions, energy efficiency, greenhouse gas (GHG), renewable energy
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What we don’t know about economic climate change impacts
A relatively recent econometric literature examines the impact of weather/climate on a variety of outcomes of economic interest. In order to provide an estimate of a climate impact you need two things: An estimate of how a sector responds to … Continue reading
