The guilty ones preventing good policy about climate change
Yesterday I proposed a solution. Here is the more important answer: why there will be no solution.
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After 30 years of failed climate politics, let’s try science!
The climate policy debate has run for 30 years with few results. Let’s try something different: science!
News misreporting a big GAO report about climate change
Summary: This looks at an important new GAO climate change report, and how the news media misreport it. While a small episode, it reveals much about the problem of climate change, about journalism, and why three decades of advocacy for climate change action has produced so little action. “We don’t even plan for the past.” …
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The EPA chief explains the real reason for Obama’s Clean Power Plan
Summary: The head of the EPA makes an interesting admission in the Q&A at the House Joint Committee hearing about the Fiscal Year 2017 EPA Budget on March 22. She explains what she sees as the big gain from the CPP. Video below; this starts at 2:14. David McKinley (R- WV): “If it {Clean Power …
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Why skeptics will lose the US climate policy debate
Summary: The advocates for a massive public policy response to climate change have overwhelming political power, far greater than that of conservatives and skeptics opposing them. Temporary factors have prevented their victory, but weather or politics could change the situation quickly and soon. The illusion of winning keeps skeptics disorganized and ineffective. Skeptics have the …
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