cboblog.cbo.gov - 10/6/2008
—
CBO released a brief today on climate-change policy and CO2 emissions from passenger vehicles (for the PDF, click here ).
Discussions about addressing climate change (e.g., through a cap-and-trade program or a carbon tax) often focus on the transportation sector. The brief argues, however, ...
Hedging our bets on climate change
VoxEU.org 10/15/2008 — Valentina Bosetti , Carlo Carraro , Alessandra Sgobbi , Massimo Tavoni , 14 October 2008 The future of climate change policy is very uncertain due to economic, environmental, and political complexities. This column quantifies the economic cost of ...
Climate Change Economics
organizationsandmarkets.com 9/22/2009 — | Glenn MacDonald |
Some thoughts about how carbon emissions will evolve. Assume carbon emissions cause climate change. (Obviously this is controversial. But I have nothing new to add to this and so am willing to grant this assumption.) There are ...
Strassel: The Climate Change Climate Change
online.wsj.com 6/26/2009 — Steve Fielding recently asked the Obama administration to reassure him on the science of man-made global warming. When the administration proved unhelpful, Mr. Fielding decided to vote against climate-change legislation. If you haven't heard of this ...
Uncertainty, climate change, and the global economy
voxeu.org 11/21/2008 — Torsten Persson , David von Below , 21 November 2008 What will the climate be like in a hundred years’ time? The answer depends on both how human activity affects climate change and how a warming climate alters the economy’s productive capacity and ...
Op-Ed Contributor - The Climate for Change
nytimes.com 11/10/2008 — (Page 2 of 2) Here’s what we can do now: we can make an immediate and large strategic investment to put people to work replacing 19th-century energy technologies that depend on dangerous and expensive carbon-based fuels with 21st-century ...
The Associated Press: UN: climate change impact on agriculture dire
google.com 9/30/2009 — (AP) 2 days ago ROME A U.N. agency warns that the climate change will badly affect agriculture and hit developing nations hardest, leading to unreliable food production and higher prices. The Food and Agriculture Organization says climate change ...
Climate change is a battle for existence in the Maldives - Yahoo! News
news.yahoo.com 11/26/2008 — MALE (AFP) Among the many grim predictions of climate change experts, the future fate of The Maldives stands out as a genuine doomsday scenario with the island chain nation facing nothing short of extinction. A one-metre (3.3-foot) rise in sea level ...
Climate change refugees seek a new international deal
climatechangecorp.com 12/27/2008 — Global warming caused by human-induced greenhouse gas emissions has been linked to a host of environmental disasters. They include sea-level rise, flooding, spells of droughts and cold and other extreme weather conditions such as frequent hurricanes ...
How much carbon dioxide do computers emit?
economist.com 8/26/2009 — AVIATION has long been blamed for its share of anthropogenic global warming. Indeed, some travellers now ask themselves whether their flight is strictly necessary and, if they decide it is, salve their consciences by paying for the planting of trees. ...
Follow WallStreetBlips on Twitter
