"Fracking Would Emit Large Quantities of Greenhouse Gases"
Another reason to be suspicious of fracking: Fracking Would Emit Large Quantities of Greenhouse Gases, by Mark Fischetti, Scientific American: Add methane emissions to the growing list of environmental risks posed by fracking. Opposition to the hydraulic fracturing of deep...
Doctors Call for Fracking Moratorium
Wow, this bit of news is amazing, in both a good and bad way. Just to mention one fracking contaminant, benzene is a particularly nasty carcinogen (not that this Bloomberg article mentions it, but it is the sort of thing that too often gets into water tables thanks to fracking). The fact that fracking...
"Climate Change – Our Real Bequest to Future Generations"
Dean Baker: Climate change – our real bequest to future generations, Commentary, by Dean Baker: It is remarkable how efforts to reduce the government deficit/debt are often portrayed as a generational issue, while efforts to reduce global warming are almost...
Paul Krugman: Springtime for Toxics
The EPA's new rules on mercury and other airborne toxics should produce large benefits -- if they can survive opposition from the GOP: Springtime for Toxics, by Paul Krugman, Commentary, NY Times: Here’s what I wanted for Christmas: something that...
Assessing the Climate Talks
Robert Stavins assess the Durban climate talks: Assessing the Climate Talks — Did Durban Succeed?, by Robert Stavins: The 17th Conference of the Parties (COP-17) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) adjourned on Sunday, a day...
Cheer Up, FTAdviser: At Least You Don’t Publish Threadbare Excuses from Scammers, Like Reuters Does
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Paul Krugman: Here Comes the Sun
Who doesn't like solar energy?: Here Comes the Sun, by Paul Krugman, Commentary, NY Times: ...We are, or at least we should be, on the cusp of an energy transformation, driven by the rapidly falling cost of solar power. That’s...
Stavins: The Promise and Problems of Pricing Carbon
Robert Stavins: The Promise and Problems of Pricing Carbon, by Robert Stavins: Friday, October 21st was a significant day for climate change policy worldwide and for the use of market-based approaches to environmental protection, but it went largely unnoticed across...
Paul Krugman: Party of Pollution
As I said the other day, the GOP's jobs proposals amount to picking something that they (or the people who finance their campaigns) don't like — the EPA, Dodd-Frank, health care legislation, Sarbanes-Oxley, etc. — and then finding some way...
Energy Efficiency Doesn’t Work
By Cameron Murray, a professional economist with a background in property development, environmental economics research and economic regulation. Cross posted from MacroBusiness
The word efficiency carries a meaning immersed in all things positive – you never hear that being more efficient could possibly be detrimental. In fact, if you can bear the evangelical fervour, you...
"Innuendo, Half Truths, Misdirection, and Utter Non-Sequiturs"
I think it would be fair to say that Jeff Sachs is unhappy with Rupert Murdoch, and for good reason: The Murdoch Legacy, by Jeffrey Sachs: At age 80, Rupert Murdoch will be long gone in coming decades when the...
Guest Post: Will Tokyo Be Evacuated Due to Fukushima Radiation?
Hopefully it will never come to this ...
