climate change policy
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Economist smacks down skeptics for misreading his research
William D. Nordhaus — economist, Yale professor, serious person — has taken to a serious publication, The New York Review of Books, to put the smackdown on climate skeptics. The back story: Nordhaus has done working analysis of the economic impacts of implementing climate policies. In that awful Wall Street Journal op-ed we wrote about […]
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Ask to grind: Your questions for presidential candidates
Just before the next GOP showdown in Arizona, we asked Grist readers to help us come up with presidential debate questions that don't suck. You delivered in spades.
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Poor nations demand stringent emissions deal, unicorns
At the ongoing climate talks in Durban, South Africa, 48 of the world's "Least Developed Countries" demanded that world governments sign an ambitious climate deal. By “ambitious” we mean it commits them to a level of atmospheric greenhouse gases lower than what's currently in the atmosphere. There’s a rider requiring free Pegasuses (Pegasi?) for all […]
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Dirty 'hoods: Is your neighborhood bad for the climate?
Even dense urban areas like New York and Toronto harbor enclaves of high per capita emissions -- and they all have one thing in common: wealth.
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Neoliberalism and climate change adaptation
there's been an ongoing debate among lefty wonk types about neoliberalism, its discontents, and possible alternatives (if there are any). I want to be that annoying environmental guy and drag climate change into the conversation.
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Storm chaser: Sen. Durbin carries on lonely fight against climate change
While Obama lifts the "cloud of uncertainty" over the economy, Dick Durbin looks like one of the only lawmakers still worried about the real weather.
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Smart ALEC: How corporations screw you over behind closed doors
The American Legislative Exchange Council gives corporations a chance to help ghostwrite legislation that benefits them.
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Been there, tried that: 'Climate Pragmatism' pushes failed strategy
New 'Climate Pragmatism' report ignores science, perpetuates right-wing myths, and advocates a "no regrets" approach.
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What’s the real cost of not investing in clean energy?
Politicians have not invested in the insurance policy against climate change that we need.