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- A Question of Balance: Weighing the Options on Global Warming Policies by William Nordhaus and Global Warming: Looking Beyond Kyoto by Ernesto Zedillo, two climate - change books he is writing about for The New York Review of Books

As I mentioned in my article, the state of California might allow some of its industries to comply with a forthcoming global warming policy by steering money into tropical forest protection, but even that is no certainty.

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There are known connections and movements of people involved in government policy, scientific societies, and private industry, all with the common thread of influencing the outcome of a set of programs and investments underpinned by the supposed threat of global warming.

But the advice given by leading economists to the United States government has been to emphasize policies that lead to economic growth so that we will be in position to pay the costs of global warming as they arise.

The reasons for this are many: less cold water from Sierra snowpack, less cold freshwater being released from the Delta due to farming needs and other water policies, warm waters caused by El Nino flowing into the Bay, and other variables.

Is the right policy for global warming to seek an 80 % emissions reduction by 2050, or to transition completely out of fossil fuels?

That's the finding of a pair of related reports released yesterday by an international group of climate science and policy luminaries who warned that the window is closing to avert dangerous warming.

«European clean air policies unmask Arctic warming by greenhouse gases.»

The government's policy is also, in part, a reaction to a growing awareness of the environmental damage done by fossil fuels, especially global warming.

► In other climate change news, Leigh Dayton wrote on Tuesday that in April, «the University of Western Australia (UWA) in Perth announced plans to set up an Australian Consensus Centre (ACC), chaired by [global warming skeptic Bjørn] Lomborg, that would conduct policy research on overseas aid, Australian prosperity, agriculture, and regional issues.

The «political atmospherics» of the meeting might polish Trump's optics, but Bledsoe is skeptical about its influence on public policy, which is being overseen in some cases by transition officials who question the scientific findings on global warming.

The Global Warming Policy Foundation is an independent think tank chaired by the former British finance minister Nigel Lawson that claims to «bring reason, integrity and balance to a debate that has become seriously unbalanced, irrationally alarmist and all too often depressingly intolerant ``.

To avoid multiple climate tipping points, policy makers need to act now to stop global CO2 emissions by 2050 and meet the Paris Agreement's goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, a new study has said.

IPCC, an international organization founded in 1988 by the United Nations, is best known for its lengthy, periodic reports assessing climate science and policy options for curbing global warming.

Jaffe and a new breed of global air detectives are delivering a sobering message to policy makers everywhere: Carbon dioxide, the predominant driver of global warming, is not the only industrial by - product whose effects can be felt around the world.

Policy expert Roger Pielke Jr. of the University of Colorado, Boulder, whose work was also cited by IPCC, said that the report cherry - picked not only from among the literature to select a paper that delivered the conclusion it hoped to highlight — that a warming globe was worsening economic losses from disasters — but also from within Muir - Wood's paper.

For instance, he said, things could be made better or worse by demographic trends, and how well New York adapts its infrastructure and policies to a warmer world.

To add to the problem, these forests have been altered fundamentally in recent years by warmer winters, drier summers and policies to prevent fires.

But even with such policies in place — not only in the U.S. but across the globe — climate change is a foregone conclusion; global average temperatures have already risen by at least 1.1 degrees Fahrenheit (0.6 degree C) and further warming of at least 0.7 degree F (0.4 degree C) is virtually certain, according to the IPCC.

«He let the moment go by without making any change in his dogged refusal to put real limits on America's global warming pollution,» says David Doniger, climate policy director at the Natural Resources Defense Council, a New York - based environmental group.

«Global efforts to stay well below 2 degrees [Celsius of warming], and especially 1.5 degrees, will be severely compromised if international aviation and shipping emissions continue to increase,» Mark Lutes, senior global climate policy adviser at the World Wide Fund for Nature's global climate and energy initiative, said by email.

-- After reviewing the report required by subsection (a), the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, in concurrence with the Secretary of Agriculture, may, by regulation and after public notice and comment, modify the non-Federal lands portion of the definition of «renewable biomass» in section 610 of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 in order to advance the goals of increasing America's energy independence, protecting the environment, and reducing global warming pollution.

The public, press and policy makers have been repeatedly told that three claims have widespread scientific support: Global temperature has risen about a degree since the late 19th century; levels of CO2 in the atmosphere have increased by about 30 % over the same period; and CO2 should contribute to future warming.

Based on the available scientific knowledge it is only by concerted global actions and smart science - informed policies that we can provide solutions to limit warming of the climate system to 2 °C above pre-industrial levels, and thus reduce the risks and mitigate the consequences of climate change.

Differences in projections of warming by the end of the century appear to be related to assumptions made on emission trajectories and the ambitiousness of climate policies beyond 2030 rather than differences in methodology or climate modeling.

The public, press and policy makers have been repeatedly told that three claims have widespread scientific support: Global temperature has risen about a degree since the late 19th century; levels of CO2 [carbon dioxide] in the atmosphere have increased by about 30 percent over the same period; and CO2 should contribute to future warming.

In addition to the preservation of a 740 hectare virgin rainforest, Pacuare Jungle Lodge has a fine tradition of top - notch service, a warm ambiance, fastidious safety policies and a warm «akin to home» hospitality that has helped it attain the highest sustainability tourism ratings awarded by the Costa Rican government.

Today that projection has changed to 2012, thereby proving emphatically that this Global Warming process is happening Exponentially, which has been further advance by our current Administration's policies such as the «Clear Skies Initiative», which as most of us know is nothing but a «wolf in sheep's clothing».

If and when warming (as measured by some comprehensible benchmark) resumes, there will be more broad - based uptake for policy action.

There is a world of difference, however, between having 2 ºC warming by 2100 (which is the policy goal of the European Union) or having 4 ºC or 5 ºC or even more warming then, and this is what we can decide.

President - elect Barack Obama sent a video message to a summit meeting on global warming organized by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California, implying that despite the continuing economic turmoil, reductions in greenhouse gas emissions will remain a central component of Mr. Obama's energy, environmental and economic policies.

Here's the list from top to bottom, with the economy listed as a top priority by 85 percent of those polled and global warming 30 percent: the economy, jobs, terrorism, Social Security, education, energy, Medicare, health care, deficit reduction, health insurance, helping the poor, crime, moral decline, military, tax cuts, environment, immigration, lobbyists, trade policy, global warming.

Mr. Jungbauer gave a talk and slide presentation that he said were aimed at providing ammunition for anyone in the policy arena seeking to counter visions of catastrophic global warming pushed by liberal campaigners.

Naomi Klein, the author of a string of provocative and popular books including «The Shock Doctrine,» recently took on global warming policy and campaigns in «Capitalism vs. the Climate,» a much - discussed cover story for The Nation that has been mentioned by readers here more than once in the last few weeks.

This is shown quite vividly in the graph above, from the invaluable ongoing «Six Americas» study of attitudes on global warming science and policy, led by researchers at Yale University and George Mason University.

For centuries, Russian foreign policy was dominated by gaining access to warm - water ports.

«If current policy continues to fail — along the lines of the «agree and ignore» scenario — then 50 % to 80 % of all species on earth could be driven to extinction by the magnitude and rapidity of warming, and much of the planet's surface left uninhabitable to humans.

Therefore, it is a (by some deliberately promoted) misunderstanding to draw conclusions from such a short trend about future global warming, let alone climate policy.

Source note The links marked by an asterisk come courtesy of an e-mail newsletter from Benny Peiser of the Global Warming Policy Foundation.

Two days after the talk, Mr. Gore was sharply criticized for using the data to make a point about global warming by Roger A. Pielke, Jr., a political scientist focused on disaster trends and climate policy at the University of Colorado.

In short to blame Global Warming, (even it is caused by man) for starvation and death is to ignore the deliberate state policies that either destroyed their countries economies such as Zimbawe, North Korea, or the criminal actions such as the Sudanese government and its campaign of ethnic cleansing in Darfur.

To some extent, the positions above reflect or build on themes articulated by David G. Victor of the University of California, San Diego, in «Global Warming Gridlock,» Roger A. Pielke, Jr., of the University of Colorado in «The Climate Fix, and the authors (including Pielke) of «The Hartwell Paper — a New Direction for Climate Policy.»

In a forthcoming paper for the Harvard Law and Policy review, «Fast Clean Cheap,» we argue that a regulation - centered approach would only achieve 10 — 30 percent emissions reductions in the U.S. by 2050, whereas we need 80 percent emissions reductions in the U.S. and 50 percent emissions reductions worldwide by then if we are to avoid catastrophic global warming.

A comprehensive policy will be needed — one with multiple reduction triggers (Downstream Cap and Trade as well as CO2 based CAFE standards for example), an expansive energy R&D policy (much like the one called for by Nordhaus and Shellenberg), and an adaptation plan for areas that will be critically effected by the warming predicted without any current reduction policy.

But the report, signed by Kevin H. Winters, assistant inspector general for investigations, criticized what it said was a sustained pattern of activities, largely supervised by senior political appointees, that included muting or withholding news releases on global warming and, at least in Dr. Hansen's case, limiting a scientist's interactions with reporters for fear that he might stray into discussing policies at odds with those of the White House.

Nov. 8, 8:09 a.m. Updated In the face of probes by a state attorney general, hints of hostile congressional hearings and assaults from critics in the blogosphere, hundreds of members of the American Geophysical Union are preparing to speak out * to challenge disinformation and misinformation deployed in the policy wars over global warming.

The World Bank notes that absent any policy changes, the global average temperature could be 9 degrees Fahrenheit warmer by the end of this century, well above what human civilization has ever witnessed.

Finding myself in the same foxhole as Steve Schneider when the «Nuclear Winter «balloon went up — it was launched on the anniversary of Orson Welles» War of The Worlds Broadcast with a media graphics package prepared by the Creative Department of that great K - Street PR institution Porter Novell Inc., I remarked to him that it all seemed like a bad joke on Cold War policy analysts, played at the expense of the credibility of climate modeling on the eve of the global warming debate.

Even though it was widely recognized by the end of the 1980s that the existing stock of atmospheric greenhouse gases was likely to lead to some inevitable warming, the policy community suppressed discussion of adaptation out of fear that it would blunt the arguments for greenhouse - gas mitigation.

The meeting was attended by scientists, environmental campaigners, engineers and policy experts aiming to clarify how global warming might be counteracted either by sopping up heat - trapping carbon dioxide or reducing incoming sunlight in a variety of ways — a suite of options known as geo - engineering.