by Judith Curry
So, is climate change a local or global threat? Are we risking global ruin?
How to frame a response to the climate change problem requires deeper examination of the actual nature of the risk/threat. A new paper by Nassim Taleb provides some food for thought.
The Precautionary Principle (with Application to Genetic Modification of Organisms)
Nassim Taleb, Rupert Read, Raphael Douady, Joseph Norman,Yaneer Bar-Yam
by Judith Curry
I (and others) have characterized climate change as a ‘wicked problem’ – systemic, self-fuelling tangles, which are multidimensional, hard to define and generate new problems when one tries to solve the old ones.
by Planning Engineer
A recent posting presented taxonomy of potential policy perspectives around climate/energy policy. The ensuing comments brought home the unfortunate recognition that energy providers have not advocated specific actions and preferred directions for climate/energy policy. I think they have a good story. Why aren’t they telling it?
by Planning Engineer
Debates on policy issues around climate and energy often feature opposing sides talking past each other.
All this talk about climate change has misled us collectively. It has made us search for a mega solution to a mega problem: it has created the impression that if we solve the problem of climate change, all other problems would also be solved. This is not the case. – Eija-Riitta Korhola
by Judith Curry
Politically correct climate change orthodoxy has completely destroyed our ability to think rationally about the environment. – Richard Tol
by Judith Curry
Every aspect of climate change is shaped by ethical dispute: from scientific practice to lobbying and activism and eventually, at national and international levels, the setting and implementation of climate policy. – Peter Lee
by Judith Curry
The Senate held an interesting and potentially important hearing on super pollutants.
by Judith Curry
With the Republicans in majority for both Houses of the 114th Congress, what are the implications for U.S. climate and energy policy?
by Judith Curry
Some new books that I’ve been reading, by Roger Pielke Jr., Rud Istvan, George Marshall and James Gleick.
