Professors are angry

Image source: flickr.com/photos/polarpicpool/ The Guardian ran a piece yesterday on the Copenhagen climate change summit that reports climate scientists are getting a bit grumpy. A conservative bunch by natural inclination, it is pretty clear from some of the comments that they have lost patience. One of the keynotes speakers was Nicholas Stern, who was commissioned [...]

Is Obama green enough?

Image source: thedooryard.typepad.com The Inspired Economist asks the question this week as to whether Obama’s stimulus package is green enough. Linking to a report in The Guardian it is pointed out that the $100 billion allocated to green measures amounts to less than 13% of the total package, some way below that recommended by economist [...]

New Report on the Costs of Climate Change

Image source: nrdc.org The Cost of Climate Change: What We’ll Pay if Global Warming Continues Unchecked is a study of the costs of inaction for the US economy by Frank Ackerman and Elizabeth A. Stanton, commissioned by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). The report presents a detailed analysis of four major categories of climate [...]