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Category: climate economics
The Economist has a couple of articles on energy policy and climate change, both related to Britain's Committee on Climate Change, an untested body. My title comes from the first, which basically says that a carbon tax would be a...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:30 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate economics
Says Nature. Well, good, is my first reaction. It is set at €17 (and phased in) whereas €40 was apparently the minimum considered worthwhile. Furthermore "the plan is to phase in higher carbon prices over time, but Sarkozy failed to...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:55 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate economics
asks Unscientific American (and CP). The short answer is no. As you can find from the FAO, calories per day are going up, not down. [W]orld grain prices in the spring and summer of last year climbed to the highest...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:28 PM • 42 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate economics
In which I reveal my folky side. Not a part of my youth; something I've learnt recently. The Martin Carthy version (with Eliza on violin, which is where this started, as I was looking for some of her playing for...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:48 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate economics
Hansen has finally realised why cap-n-trade is more "popular" than a carbon tax. Of course I said this ages ago. JH says (I think it's in there somewhere; the text I'm quoting is from an email): In my testimony I...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:57 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate economics
How overfed are we? refers, in which I express some doubt about the problems of food production. But Battisti and Naylor (Science 9 January 2009: Vol. 323. no. 5911, pp. 240 - 244; DOI: 10.1126/science.1164363) Historical Warnings of Future Food...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 10:33 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate economics
Since I seem to be stating my position perhaps its time to clarify my position on CO2 taxes. I hear Obama is waiting to hear what I have to say on this burning issue :-) When I said that heavy,...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:13 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate economics
Science paves way for climate lawsuits....
Posted by William M. Connolley at 7:57 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate communication
I decided to skip over the synthesis - how can I judge that, before reading the chapters its supposed to synthesise? I'll come back to it. Previous: Part I. Chapter 2 "Future carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels" is by...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:40 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate economics
Don't worry, fuel hasn't gone up that much. No, this one is about food. For quite some time now, ever since I've been doing it, certainly more than a year, our weekly family-of-4 shopping bill at Waitrose has been £100,...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 2:15 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
