Posts tagged…Climate
Best demolition of IPCC case on Climate
Thu, Jan 31 2008Dr Bob Carter, a geologist and paleontologist at James Cook and Adelaide Universities writes clear economical prose, provides good illustrations and extensive citations.
His paper The Myth of Dangerous Human-Caused Climate Change is a clever, very readable demolition job.
Climate Debate Daily
Thu, Jan 24 2008Dennis Dutton does it again with a new site that logs current contributions from both sides of the debate on human-forcing of global warming. Enormously good value.
Stern is mistaken to think binding targets will work
Sun, Dec 02 2007
Sir Nicholas Stern argues, ahead of the Bali meeting of the UNFCCC, for binding, differentiated emission targets and international trading. I think his own address betrays the fundamental problem with this approach to a collaborative regime for climate change mitigation.
Experience alone should make any student of history or economics deeply skeptical of a negotiated assignment of effective…
Read more…Carbon ‘compensation’ tariffs—a real prospect?
Wed, Nov 28 2007Lacking trade policy autonomy, the French cannot do this without Brussels’ consent. So far, they do not have it. But will they win in the end? Possibly.
“Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, on Tuesday warned China that the European Union could penalise cheap imports from high carbon-emitting countries in order to defend EU companies obliged to meet strict environmental standards.”(“FT.com / In…
What the collapse of the Doha talks means for agreement on climate
Tue, Jun 26 2007
The news that the WTO talks had collapsed again probably deserves the familiar gripes and even the bored yawns that greeted it. But behind this story is a worrying lesson about the potential for agreement on other global challenges, like climate change.
Ignoring the WTO jargon, the collapse of the talks is a story about how the world has changed in the past half century or so since the WTO rules…
Climate change concern
Tue, Feb 13 2007The daily number of blog posts in last 12 months has quadrupled