This is designed to convince other countries to follow suit, hopefully eliminating what economists call the «free rider»
problem of climate change mitigation programs.
Not exact matches
The Stephen H. Schneider Symposium, being held in late August in Boulder, Colo., will reflect on his approach to the
climate problem and culminate with a session on this question: «The challenge
of climate change mitigation and adaptation: How do we translate sound
climate science into sound policies?»
The frequency with which scientists currently discuss «adaptation to» and «
mitigation for»
climate change is disturbing, and may speak
of a reluctance to confront the
problem with a realistic attitude (Dyson 2006).
The
problem for Mr. Romm is that most economic analyses
of climate change show that benefits don't exceed costs for aggressive
mitigation (see Manzi's comments, for instance).
If the report argues for the acquisition
of capabilities, tools, systems, and institutions that could help meet the potential for
problems brought on by
climate change, it is not necessarily arguing for the adoption
of specific adaptations or
mitigation strategies.
This has almost nothing to do with the environmental policy anymore, with
problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole,» «We redistribute de facto the world's wealth by
climate policy,» Ottmar Edenhofer, IPCC working group on Mitigation of Climate Change 2008 t
climate policy,» Ottmar Edenhofer, IPCC working group on
Mitigation of Climate Change 2008 t
Climate Change 2008 to 2015.
Favorable energy economics are just one
of solar's many benefits — including less water use, lack
of requirement for a centralized grid in undeveloped regions, low cost, zero air pollution, and in providing a
mitigation for the rising
problem of global
climate change (which is primarily driven by human fossil fuel burning).
Here is an example
of what I'm getting at: *
Climate change is a myth or conspiracy - The temperature record is phony - the consensus is just politics * Climate change is unproven - The models are wrong - One hundred years isn't enough evidence * It's not our fault - Volcano's emit way more CO2 - It could be natural variation * A warmer climate is nothing to worry about - It was warmer in the middle ages - A warmer climate is a good thing * Mitigation will destroy the economy - We don't know enough to act - Reducing fossil fuel will destroy us * It's too late or someone else's problem - Kyoto is too little too late - The US absorbs more CO2 than it emits This is very rough example, but if you think it is headed in the right direction, I'd be happy to go through your guide in more detail and come up with something concrete - just give me th
Climate change is a myth or conspiracy - The temperature record is phony - the consensus is just politics *
Climate change is unproven - The models are wrong - One hundred years isn't enough evidence * It's not our fault - Volcano's emit way more CO2 - It could be natural variation * A warmer climate is nothing to worry about - It was warmer in the middle ages - A warmer climate is a good thing * Mitigation will destroy the economy - We don't know enough to act - Reducing fossil fuel will destroy us * It's too late or someone else's problem - Kyoto is too little too late - The US absorbs more CO2 than it emits This is very rough example, but if you think it is headed in the right direction, I'd be happy to go through your guide in more detail and come up with something concrete - just give me th
Climate change is unproven - The models are wrong - One hundred years isn't enough evidence * It's not our fault - Volcano's emit way more CO2 - It could be natural variation * A warmer
climate is nothing to worry about - It was warmer in the middle ages - A warmer climate is a good thing * Mitigation will destroy the economy - We don't know enough to act - Reducing fossil fuel will destroy us * It's too late or someone else's problem - Kyoto is too little too late - The US absorbs more CO2 than it emits This is very rough example, but if you think it is headed in the right direction, I'd be happy to go through your guide in more detail and come up with something concrete - just give me th
climate is nothing to worry about - It was warmer in the middle ages - A warmer
climate is a good thing * Mitigation will destroy the economy - We don't know enough to act - Reducing fossil fuel will destroy us * It's too late or someone else's problem - Kyoto is too little too late - The US absorbs more CO2 than it emits This is very rough example, but if you think it is headed in the right direction, I'd be happy to go through your guide in more detail and come up with something concrete - just give me th
climate is a good thing *
Mitigation will destroy the economy - We don't know enough to act - Reducing fossil fuel will destroy us * It's too late or someone else's
problem - Kyoto is too little too late - The US absorbs more CO2 than it emits This is very rough example, but if you think it is headed in the right direction, I'd be happy to go through your guide in more detail and come up with something concrete - just give me the word.
But controversy in international politics continues to rage over what role developing countries, including India, should play in reducing greenhouses gases and the
mitigation of climate change when they are not the ones who created the
problem.
Countries are spending countless billions
of dollars annually on faulty to fraudulent IPCC
climate models and studies that purport to link every adverse event or
problem to manmade
climate change; subsidized renewable energy programs that displace food crops and kill wildlife; adaptation and
mitigation measures against future disasters that exist only in «scenarios» generated by the IPCC's GIGO computer models; and welfare, food stamp and energy assistance programs for the newly unemployed and impoverished.
We recommend that the new scenarios be used not only in the IPCC's future assessments
of climate change, its impacts, and adaptation and
mitigation options, but also as the basis for analyses by the wider research and policy community
of climate change and other environmental
problems.
Moreover, companies must do more than acknowledge the
climate change problem, they must also recognize «the gravity
of the consequences society will face if it continues on its current course, primarily because those consequences suggest the magnitude
of the foreseeable
mitigation response.»