Category Archives: Climate policy

Committee Dems Reject Job Loss Cap (and what does this say about the party in power?)

Joseph Romm (Climate Progress): Costs of “Strong Climate Action” Negligible–(But does he understate IPCC’s cost estimate by 95%?)

Cap-and-Trade: The Temple of Enron (James Hansen makes an important political point)

CO2 Cap-and-Trade Meets the (China) Dragon: Why Legislating Trillions of Dollars in Regulatory Costs Would Be Climatically Inconsequential

High/Low: Is There Now Reasonable Agreement on the Costs and Benefits of Waxman-Markey?

“Dirty” Waxman-Markey: How Small Can Small Get?

Climate Impacts of Waxman-Markey (Part II)—Global Sign-Up

Climate Impacts of Waxman-Markey (the IPCC-based arithmetic of no gain)

Questar’s CEO on Energy and Climate Realities (A pretty darn good industry speech in our age of T. Boone Pickens, Aubrey McClendon, and other energy interventionists)

Government CO2 Pricing and Protectionism: Two Peas in a Pod (trade wars and worse as potential costs of GHG mitigation)