Climate Change Mitigation: Blue States Act and Red States Free Ride

Climate Change Mitigation: Blue States Act and Red States Free Ride: "

As discussed below, 9 northeastern states are getting ready to sign a pact to cap and trade electric utility greenhouse gas emissions. Under what conditions would this pact accelerate the timing and increase the probability that the nation's electric …

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Battle Lines Set as New York Acts to Cut Emissions

Battle Lines Set as New York Acts to Cut Emissions: "

New York is adopting California's ambitious new regulations aimed at cutting automotive emissions of global …

Emissions trading: Companies want longer-term certainty and predictability

Emissions trading: Companies want longer-term certainty and predictability: "

The European Commission has released first highlights of a recent stakeholder consultation on the EU emissions trading scheme, which …

BP gives carbon cutting tips

BP gives carbon cutting tips: "

Oil companies have started to hint in their advertising that easy oil will not last forever. Still, I was a little surprised to find that BP's site has a cheeky little Flash-based household carbon emissions calculator (complete with animated Fisher-Price …

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Climate summit opens in Montreal

Climate summit opens in Montreal: "

The first United Nations climate conference since the Kyoto agreement came into force in February has opened with the US still resisting targets.

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Who will save us from a 2005 peak?

Who will save us from a 2005 peak?: "

Can we find hope for those of us who might be thinking, to paraphrase St Augustine, "Lord, make us conserve oil, but not just yet!" Remember this picture? Let's check in with our top enablers of the last few years and see who might be good for another …

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Economics, Politics, and Psychology: The Case of Avian Flu--Posner

Economics, Politics, and Psychology: The Case of Avian Flu--Posner: "

There is concern about the possibility of a flu pandemic that would be as or more lethal than the 1918-1919 Spanish flu pandemic, which may have killed as many as 50 million people worldwide; 500,000 died in the United States....

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Comment on Avian Flu--BECKER

Comment on Avian Flu--BECKER: "

Posner raises most of the important issues. I will make just a couple of points. Companies are reluctant to invest in developing vaccines or other protections against the Avian and other types of flu not only because of their legitimate...

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U.K. Greenhouse Gas Demand Was Correct, Court Says

U.K. Greenhouse Gas Demand Was Correct, Court Says: "

The U.K. should have been allowed to request an increase in air-pollution permits from European Union regulators, an EU court ruled today.

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Further musings on Jared Diamond's Collapse

Further musings on Jared Diamond's Collapse: "

Julian Morris and I recently co-edited an edition of the interdisciplinary journal Energy and Environment, in which we commissioned a series of reviews of Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond. Several of these reviews have...

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Comments on Stavins over at Brad DeLongs SDM

Comments on Stavins over at Brad DeLongs SDM: "

Brad DeLong picks up on our most recent reprint of Stavins' The Environmental Forum column (Rob Stavins Makes a Little Joke). Rob said:[T]he United States can place itself where it ought to be — in a position of international leadership...

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Climate Basics

Climate Basics
Recently, Oxford University launched a new initiative called Climate.Basics. This Internet site provides a nice explanation and simple illustrations on what is meant by 'climate' and how the climate system works. The Climate.Basics site is a collaboration with the climateprediction.net project, which is the world???s largest climate prediction experiment. ...

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Ecological Footprint updated

Check out your ecological footprint. According to this report the world this year is overshooting it's capacity.

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My Cartel Is Bigger Than Your Cartel

My Cartel Is Bigger Than Your Cartel: "

How we can screw OPEC.

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Happy Peak Oil Day?

Happy Peak Oil Day?: "

World crude oil production (exclusive of NGL), as estimated by the Oil and Gas Journal. The highest production so far occurred in May 2005. The graph is not zero-scaled.

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ΣΥΝΤΗΞΗ * Το μεγάλο πείραμα

KARL SCHNEIDER Μια λωρίδα γης ανάμεσα στις λίμνες Τακαχόκι και Ομπούτσι στη Βόρεια Ιαπωνία μπορεί να αλλάξει το μέλλον του πλανήτη μας. Ολες οι ανησυχίες μας για την τιμή του πετρελαίου και τα αέρια του θερμοκηπίου μπορεί να εξαφανισθούν αν η ιαπωνική κυβέρνηση αποφασίσει να στεγάσει εδώ ένα πρόγραμμα το οποίο ενδέχεται να μας προσφέρει σχεδόν απεριόριστες ποσότητες ενέργειας και «καθαρό» ηλεκτρισμό μέσα στα επόμενα 50 χρόνια. Το Ροκάσο ήταν μία από τις δύο τοποθεσίες που

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Matt Simmons • The Coming Global Oil Crisis

Τα στοιχήματα συνεχίζουν. Έχουμε φτάσει στο σημείο μέγιστης παγκόσμιας άντλησης πετρελαίου;

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Will Chinese Innovation Protect Us From Peak Oilers' Gloomy Predictions?

Will Chinese Innovation Protect Us From Peak Oilers' Gloomy Predictions?: "

Suppose there is sharp learning by doing in the renewable energy industry. As this article below discusses, China is getting ready to make a major investment in wind turbines. If the Chinese government creates the demand for renewables technology and …

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Πώς βλέπει ένας οικονομολόγος το θέμα του Peak Oil

Peak Oil at the American Enterprise Institute: "

A week ago I participated in a discussion at the American Enterprise Institute on peak oil. A video of the event can be downloaded from E&ETV and a transcript is available from Peak Oil News.

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Στοίχημα μεταξύ των Julian Simon and Paul Ehrlich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Στοίχημα μεταξύ των Julian Simon and Paul Ehrlich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Πληροφορίες για το γνωστό στοίχημα μεταξύ των Julian Simon και του Paul Ehrlich για την εξέλιξη των τιμών κάποιων μετάλλων."

Μεταπτυχιακά προγράμματα για Οικονομική του Περιβάλλοντος

Κάποιες λίστες μεταπτυχιακών προγραμμάτων:

http://www.ecoeco.org/links/courses/linx_courses.htm

http://www.uvm.edu/giee/otheree.htm

Here is a ranking of “agricultural economics” departments, many of which specialize in environmental and resource economics. The rankings in this study also break the departments down by field (including resource and env. econ).

http://arec.oregonstate.edu/Ranking2004.pdf

More Questions for Peak Oilers

More Questions for Peak Oilers: "

I often go to www.theoildrum.com to try to understand how smart non-economists think about resource depletion in a growing economy. There I see a fair bit of venting about economists and our "naive optimism".

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It’s not the Economy, Stupid

It’s not the Economy, Stupid: "

As an economist, I am always baffled by people who think that pointing out that while GDP has grown exponentially for the past half-century, human happiness has remained relatively flat is somehow irrefutable evidence that capitalism, markets, and …

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Economics for environmentalists

Economics for environmentalists: "

A long-winded comment over the weekend contained something that I thought, if properly edited, might be worth repeating (if only to make sure that some in my enviro-econ class saw it):My environmental econ course has evolved into a sort of...

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Blood, Gore and Climate Change

Blood, Gore and Climate Change: "

Do you remember those standardized test questions that ask you to pick the one that is least like the other? Five years ago, if you would have asked me which of these three doesn't fit--markets, climate change or Al Gore--I...

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More Oil, Less Carbon

More Oil, Less Carbon: "

I don't know much about oil extraction technologies but any technology that promises to reduce the cost of extraction, allow for more oil recovery AND reduce total carbon dioxide sounds like a win-win-win-win-win-...-win to me--sorry, got carried away....

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Ανησυχητικά ποσοστά κασσίτερου σε σαρδέλες του Αιγαίου

Ανησυχητικά ποσοστά κασσίτερου σε σαρδέλες του Αιγαίου: "

Οργανοκασσιτερικές ενώσεις σε επίπεδα ενδεχομένως ανησυχητικά -καθώς η ΕΕ δεν έχει νομοθετημένο ανώτατο επιτρεπτό όριο οργανοκασσιτερικών ενώσεων στα αλιεύματα- βρέθηκαν σε σαρδέλες Αιγαίου. Σε

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this is very funny

this is very funny: "

Apparently, the “Progress” and Freedom Foundation has joined the publishers in the GooglePrint case. James Delong filled the inbox of countless many to inform them about “Google Print and the Aerospace Analogy: Lessig’s …

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Though this discussion is about copyright issues it touches on interpretations of the commons that are very relevant to environmental economics.

TRI

TRI: "

From env-econ reader Clay Northouse (of OMB Watch):Your readers might be interested in a recent development at the EPA. They announced a plan to roll back reporting under the Toxic Release Inventory (TRI). This is the public’s only way to...

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A positive Gristmill comment (!)

A positive Gristmill comment (!): "

Bart Anderson leaves a positive comment at part deux of Jason Scorse's environmental econ article at the Gristmill....

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Pay to Drive

Pay to Drive: "

I've long thought it is a good idea to have congestion pricing for driving. I wouldn't be real happy about having to pay, but the my economist side tells me that there's no reason why roads have to be public...

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Propert Rights in Oregon

Propert Rights in Oregon: "

I'm about to go into class today and talk about the Coase Theorem and I came across an interesting case study in Oregon. I know y'all out west are way more familiar with this than I am and it is...

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The global warming game

The global warming game: "

I ran the public goods game in my micro classes on monday (Holt and Laury, J. of Econ Perspectives, 1997). I put the game in the context of global warming. Each student or teams of students is an industrial country...

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