by Judith Curry
A few things that caught my eye this past week.
Policy analysis
The solution to climate change lies in unleashing the ingenuity of the market – not in top-down subsidies [link] …
Jonathan Franzen in the New Yorker: Has climate change made it harder for people who care about conservation? [link] …
Kloor discussed controversy surrounding Franzen’s article:”legitimate to question..“collective fixation on global warming as the mother of all environmental problems.”” … [link]
How does climate stack up against other worst-case scenarios? … [link]
Breakthrough: US-China climate deal underscored the need for substantial energy innovation [link]
“Do biofuel policies seek to cut emissions by cutting food?” … [link]
Has Renewable Energy Finally Ended “the Great Clean Energy Stagnation”? … [link]
ICYM: Panel creates scientific baseline for debate about climate reparations. @NatureNews [link]
ICYM: Have governments been shooting at the wrong target with CCS? [link]
The way we give disaster aid to poor countries makes no sense. [link]
Adventures in population growth [link]
Many great suggestions for improving the #IPCC in @NatureClimate. But governments “have little appetite for change”: [link]
David Victor: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is becoming irrelevant to climate policy. By seeking consensus and avoiding controversy, the organization is suffering from the streetlight effect — focusing ever more attention on a well-lit pool of the brightest climate science. But the insights that matter are out in the darkness, far from the places that the natural sciences alone can illuminate. [link]
Manipulation, and what’s wrong with it.[link] …
US Politics
ABC News/Wash Post Poll: Climate change scores as a major issue for 2016 voters. [link]
The tip of the climate spending iceberg [link]
Voters want next president to favor climate policies, poll finds [link]
“More Americans Trust Fox News Than Obama On Climate Change, Poll Finds” … [link]
Guardian surveys nearly 50 “green” companies; finds just three of them support Obama’s Clean Power Plan [link]
“Unhide the EPA Global Warming Tax” … [link]
Forbes: Obama Makes Global Climate Pledge, But GOP Has Other Ideas [link]
New Republic: Republicans Are Attacking Climate Change Science by Comparing It to Religion [link]
Companies hire #climate specialists to save billions http://buff.ly/1NkMvCJ %5Blink]
Energy
How Costa Rica went 75 Days using only clean electricity – @TIME [link]
Turns out the world’s first “clean coal” plant is a backdoor subsidy to oil producers … [link]
Coal states in Germany: emission cap faces legal challenge and utility resistance [link]
China’s water-energy-food roadmap: A new global #chokepoint report [link]
When water is political, how can a country like India overcome growing water-food-energy choke points? [link]
India is not a resource-scarce nation, yet supply cannot keep up with prodigious demand. Why? [link]
Beijing Shuts Down Coal Power Plants as Air Pollution Costs Economy … [link]
Debacle: As Germany Adds 70 Gigawatts Of Green Electricity, Its Fossil Fuel Capacity Reaches New Record High! [link]
Mexico pledges to take on short-lived climate pollutants [link]
Carbon capture: Can the UK hit climate goals without killing off heavy industry? @CarbonBrief [link]
California Drought
California drought: what is scarce is wisdom, not water [link]
California’s insistence on trying to address the water crisis without touching agriculture is perverse [link]
Why Is Jerry Brown a Letting Big Ag. and Oil Gluttons Suck Up Most of California’s Water? | Alternet [link]
How are #California’s farmers battling its long, painful #drought? … [link]
How Growers Gamed California’s Drought [link]
Florida
Rising Seas Bring Heavy Burden to Florida Coastal Economy. Can It Adapt? [link]
The political ecology of climate change in #Florida, must-read by Katrina Schwartz [link]
Forget “bans” on talking about climate. These Florida Republicans are too busy protecting their coasts “If somebody gave you a house here, I bet you’d take it & just deal with the consequences.” @WaPo [link]
Big Money, Big Politics, and Big Infrastructure: Florida’s Saga Illustrates Climate Change’s Deep Challenges: [link]
“The reality is that sea levels have been rising around Florida for thousands of years” [link]
Quote of the week
Chief climate negotiator for France on COPs: “an enormous global circus where people keep saying the same things” – [link]Filed under: Week in review