Climate Damages: Uncertain but Ominous, or $51 per Ton of Carbon?
The dark and contested art of pricing carbon emissions.
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Climate Policy: On Buying Insurance, and Ignoring Cost-Benefit Analysis
Rethinking the analysis of climate change risk.
Read more...Are Investors Finally Waking up to North America’s Fracked Gas Crisis?
The latest in Justin Mikulka’s excellent coverage on the fracking beat for DeSmog Blog.
Read more...Let’s Say I Wanted to Escape Climate Change. Where Should I Go?
One expert says he gets versions of this question almost daily — usually from “people at big institutional real estate funds, rich people who want to buy land or already own land, or survivalist types.”
Read more...Minnesota Winters Ain’t What They Used To Be
Wimpy winters are the new normal.
Read more...How This Oil Refiners Group Rallied GOP Governors’ Support for Trump’s Rollback of Auto Standards
The story of how oil refiners group marshalled the support of Republican governors behind the Trump administration’s rollback of CAFE auto emissions standards.
Read more...IEA Chief: EVs Are Not The End Of The Oil Era
Why EVs are way overhyped as a way to reduce oil use.
Read more...8 Percent of Americans Recently Changed Their Minds on Climate. What Gives?
If you’re trying to get someone to open their mind, you might consider the idea of a having tough, nuanced conversation … and actually hearing them out.
Read more...Why the Green New Deal Is the Stuff of Fantasyland
Why the Green New Deal can’t deliver on its promises.
Read more...AOC’s Green New Deal as Policy
A close reading of Ocasio-Cortez’s proposal for a Green New Deal.
Read more...Listening to Nature: How Sound Can Help Us Understand Environmental Change
Sound is a powerful indicator of environmental degradation and an effective tool for developing more sustainable ecosystems.
Read more...Fracking in 2018: Another Year of Pretending to Make Money
The latest in Justin Mikulka’s excellent series on the fracking beat. The industry lacks even the excuse of profit to justify the environmental costs it inflicts – yet this is a story too little told in the rest of the media, which instead promotes further investments in this sector.
Read more...Waste Watch: UK Plan Opts for ‘Polluter Pays’ Approach
UK announces long awaited waste plan, which crucially, embraces the ‘polluter pays’ principle. It’s a step forward, despite at least three major flaws.
Read more...Don Quijones: Retail Melts Down Before Christmas in the UK, Spreads to Continent
After “the worst-on-record unbelievably bad” November, even e-commerce gets hit, not just brick & mortar, on fears Christmas sales could be terrible. Can we make out any a silver lining in this retail meltdown, signs of a shift necessary away from fast fashion toward a more sustainable future?
Read more...COP24: Paris Agreement Rulebook ‘Does Not Deliver What The World Needs’ on Climate Change
Summary of the depressing lack of progress at the COP24 summit in Katowice, Poland, where the participants punted on agreeing to take significant action to confront climate change.
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