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The Southern Company is not only polluting the environment with carbon and other dangerous emissions — it's also polluting the debate over climate policy by funding bad science.

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The challenge in prompting change — broadening the classic definition of «infrastructure,» and investing in initiatives aimed at adapting to a turbulent planet — is heightened by partisan divisions over climate policy and development.

But he said moving to meet climate targets is becoming more affordable because while policy is still important the energy market is transforming so fast that «market forces have taken over», market forces around wind and solar power and batteries «are just accelerating regardless of what anyone else does» and decisions by companies like AGL Energy to close their Liddell coal power station «are being made on economic grounds».

That seems implied by your comment that the «state's tax climate also matters» and adding that the state faces a $ 4 billion deficit, plus additional lost revenue from federal changes to health care and tax policy, which is estimated to be over $ 2 billion.

It will take action by AG's like New York's Eric Schneiderman, Massachusetts AG Maura Healy and others to hold the oil industry to account and hope that those revelations finally break the stranglehold over climate change policies.

Soon after the delay to the decision was announced by Hoon last Christmas, the Miliband and Benn camps both contacted the Institute for Public Policy Research, over a pamphlet by Simon Retallack, the IPPR's head of climate change, arguing that the third runway should not go ahead unless the government required aircraft using it to meet the aviation industry's own targets to cut carbon dioxide emissions and noise in new aircraft by 50 % and nitrogen oxides by 80 % by 2020.

At an event by The Christian Science Monitor that occurred before news of the Gore meeting yesterday, Bipartisan Policy Center President Jason Grumet said the biggest surprise over the next four years would be if Trump deferred to his daughter on the topic of climate.

Eliminating fossil fuel subsidies would slash global carbon emission by 20 percent and raise government revenue by 2.9 trillion, well over the funds needed for intelligent policy and action on climate adaptation.»

Methods: To understand the effects of economic forces from climate policy on terrestrial carbon and land use changes, the researchers used the MiniCAM, an integrated assessment model developed by the PNNL team over the last two decades, to compare different scenarios.

During 2005 talks over the climate treaty in Montreal, for example, the National Center for Public Policy Research, a group opposing emissions restrictions, tried to illustrate its view of carbon markets by handing out mock emissions credits.

The key issue here — far larger than the debate over a 17 % or an 84 % excess emissions per [barrel] of tar sands oil vs. light sweet crude — is highlighted by, [but] not put into full energy and climate context by, the compelling and depressing Charles Homans Foreign Policy article [link].

It's important to note that there's also sometimes a kind of «false inequivalence» in the fight over climate science and policies — an implication that the lack of action on greenhouse gases is largely the result of the unfair advantage in money and influence held by industries dealing in, or dependent on, fossil fuels.

Roger Pielke, Jr., of the University of Colorado, Boulder, has long been pummeled by climate campaigners for pointing out the primacy of economic conditions over climate concerns through his «iron law of climate policy.»

Oh sure Democrats are singing from the rafters about Syria being climate driven BUT Syria was caused by their failed policies, not some fucking aye - rab fleeing their home because the temperature has increased about.251 degree over the last century!

This senseless name calling of the scientists on both sides of the political fence, and infighting over the details of the amount of the sensitivity of the climate will soon come to an end, as the experiment on the Earth is continued with out any possible controls by the IPCC policy makers, who only want it to proceed as is, with ADDITIONAL FUNDS taken from taxes paid by the developed world, to hasten to transfer of wealth to the third world, while weakening the Western government systems through self imposed bankruptcy.

A new assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concludes that the world community could slow and then reduce global emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) over the next several decades by exploiting cost - effective policies and current and emerging technologies.

Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: «a change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate variability observed over considerable time periods.»

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported, «In the high - stakes conflict over U.S. climate - change policy, groups that deny or cast doubt on global warming brought in $ 7.2 million from 2003 to 2010... «Powerful funders are supporting the campaign to deny scientific findings about global warming,» reported Robert J. Brulle...» In the eighth paragraph, the Inquirer noted the response by James Taylor of the Heartland Institute, who observed that many of the groups «support other causes as well» and, in some cases, spend «less than 10 percent of their funding... on climate - related efforts.»

Climate change policy is driven by forecasts of temperatures over the next 100 years.

Pielke warns of a greater public danger than Atlantic storms: «Public discussion of disasters risks being taken over by the climate lobby and its allies, who exploit every extreme event to argue for action on energy policy.»

The cost of climate policies just for the European Union — intended to reduce emissions by 2020 to 20 % below 1990 levels — are estimated at about $ 250 billion annually, or about $ 20 trillion over the century.

Such a transition would save $ 1.8 trillion over the next two decades, says a study by the Climate Policy Initiative, which also found that governments and taxpayers will bear the greatest financial risk if fossil fuel reserves are stranded underground.

Although Lawson and his Global Warming Policy Foundation have been discredited and attacked by numerous scientists and senior politicians, his thinktank continues to receive significant coverage, wrongfully distorting the public and policy debate over climate cPolicy Foundation have been discredited and attacked by numerous scientists and senior politicians, his thinktank continues to receive significant coverage, wrongfully distorting the public and policy debate over climate cpolicy debate over climate change.

«Since I fought fire in Alaska over 30 years ago, the planet has rapidly warmed and wildfire conditions have noticeably deteriorated,» commented Nicky Sundt, a former U.S. Forest Service smokejumper who now works on climate policy at the World Wildlife Fund, by email.

Drawing on case studies of past environmental debates such as those over acid rain and ozone depletion, science policy experts Roger Pielke Jr. and Daniel Sarewitz argue that once next generation technologies are available that make meaningful action on climate change lower - cost, then much of the argument politically over scientific uncertainty is likely to diminish.26 Similarly, research by Yale University's Dan Kahan and colleagues suggest that building political consensus on climate change will depend heavily on advocates for action calling attention to a diverse mix of options, with some actions such as tax incentives for nuclear energy, government support for clean energy research, or actions to protect cities and communities against climate risks, more likely to gain support from both Democrats and Republicans.

The Brussels summit was dominated by arguments over energy savings and climate policy, with countries from Poland to Portugal pleading special circumstances and threatening to veto any breakthrough unless their demands were met.

The policy has bipartisan support and is endorsed by over 50 University of Washington climate scientists, Audubon Washington, Citizens» Climate Lobby, and numerous other groups and individuals who believe we must take action now on climate climate scientists, Audubon Washington, Citizens» Climate Lobby, and numerous other groups and individuals who believe we must take action now on climate Climate Lobby, and numerous other groups and individuals who believe we must take action now on climate climate change.

The repeated use of the term «undeniable» by bloggers and activists commenting on the report is merely the latest attempt by the warmists to claim that there's nothing more to be said about climate policy — that the debate is over.

To summarize, most of these economic analyses agree that a carbon pricing policy will reduce U.S. GDP - growth by less than 1 % over the next 10 — 40 years as compared to an unrealistically optimistic BAU scenario in which climate change does not impact the economy.

Markus Trilling, finance and subsidies policy coordinator at Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe, said: «Member States are putting the cart before the horse by prioritizing the quick dispersion of EU funds over the quality of investments and EU added value.

Alexander Wendt at www.achgut.com/ch, a policy - critical site run by leading German publicists, wrote how Hans - Joachim Schellnhuber recently boasted before journalists of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) how he got Pope Francis to swing over to climate alarmism in His most recent encyclical «Laudato Si».

The decisions must be made with: (1) a recognition of ambiguity and, (2) an acknowledgement that unless policies are, essentially, to be dictated by either extreme climate change or a lack of climate change over an extended period of time (so as to make any concerns about significant climate change invalid)-- affirmative policies must be made in a context where oppositional points of view are accommodated.

As we have noted over and over again in regard to the US media coverage of the US response to climate change, the US press is utterly failing to cover ethical issues entailed by opposition to climate change policies in the United States.

The challenge in prompting change — broadening the classic definition of «infrastructure,» and investing in initiatives aimed at adapting to a turbulent planet — is heightened by partisan divisions over climate policy and development.

We also explained that for over 30 years, proponents of action on climate change mostly focused on responding to the arguments made by opponents of climate change that government action on climate change was unjustifiable due to scientific uncertainty and high costs of proposed climate policies.

As outlined over the past decade in articles at Science and Nature, and in reports such as the Hartwell paper and Climate Pragmatism, various experts have argued that political success will only come by pursuing a diverse portfolio of policy solutions and technologies, implemented across levels of government and through the private and nonprofit sectors.

All this is being disturbingly tied in to the climate change debate by hijackers of the environmental movement who have spuriously associated fears over global warming with over-population, suggesting that the solution is to implement depopulation policies and punishments for those who flout them.

If the United States «stays the course» with President Bush's non-interventionist climate policies over the next decade, then by the third decade of this century all of American life — politics, international relations, our homes, our jobs, our industries, the kind of cars we drive — will be forever transformed.

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Note this statement by Nordhaus: «The study confirms past estimates of likely rapid climate change over the next century if there are not major climate - change policies.»

That's the type of problem that is addressed by Management Science as an umbrella over and separate from «Policy» and «Politics» and «Climate Science» and «Econometrics» and «Commerce».

... it makes us uneasy that someone with sway over state climate change policy, an important and politically charged arena, would be paid by a group with such a defined agenda.

Consider his recent Guardian column defending his «hockey stick» from the bad case of brewer's droop it's acquired over the last 15 years of non-warming: Bjorn Lomborg, a Danish professor named (unlike Mann) by Foreign Policy as one of the «Top 100 Global Thinkers», is dismissed as «career fossil fuel industry apologist Bjorn Lomborg»; Judith Curry, a member of the National Research Council's climate research committee, winner of awards from the American Meteorological Society, and co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences, is billed by Dr Mann as «serial climate disinformer Judith Curry...»

As long as climate models continue failing, over the next five - plus years there should be some blowback from real scientists and people hurt by hysterical climate policies.

All of the following State Policy Network affiliates (except the Kansas Policy Institute) are directly funded by the Koch brothers, while most of the groups get secretive grants through the Koch - affiliated «Dark Money ATM,» Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund, which have distributed over $ 120,000,000 to 100 groups involved in climate denial since 2002.

First, climate change, which is supported by overwhelming scientific consensus and was described by Perlmutter as «possibly the biggest challenge in human history,» merits primary consideration over financial returns under the college's Investment Responsibility Policy, if Perlmutter stands by these words.

That's why a relatively small group of hardcore anti-clean energy climate skeptics in the right - wing base has exercised effective veto power over American climate policy: they have the intensity and they're backed by money.

The concept has been used extensively in the climate research literature over the past decades and has also become a standard tool for policy analysis endorsed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change climate research literature over the past decades and has also become a standard tool for policy analysis endorsed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Climate Change (IPCC).

Driven by frustration over the laggard climate change policies of North American federal governments, the WCI led by California envisioned a «cap and trade» system setting strict limits on the emissions of the biggest polluters.

Accordingly, over the next few decades the focus of climate policy should be to: (a) broadly advance sustainable development (particularly in developing countries since that would generally enhance their adaptive capacity to cope with numerous problems that currently beset them, including climate - sensitive problems), (b) reduce vulnerabilities to climate - sensitive problems that are urgent today and might be exacerbated by future climate change, and (c) implement «no - regret» emission reduction measures while at the same time striving to expand the universe of such measures through research and development of cleaner and more affordable technologies.