The Union of Concerned Scientists released a September 2007 report called “How to Avoid Dangreous Climate Change” in which they acknowledged that a “450 ppm CO2 eq stabilization target should represent the upper limit on concentrations of heat-trapping emissions set by any policy that seeks to avoid dangerous climate change.” They examined current policy […]
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But as humanity faces the major challenge it has ever seen, it seems an opportune moment to redesign our value structures along with our energy systems. Is it time we forgo the pretty picture for the sake of the smart picture?
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” There is no uncertainty at all that humans have significantly altered the global atmospheric concentrations of gases we know to be critical in controlling climate…” – October 6, 1997 , distinguished scholar Dr. John P. Holdren at the White House “We need President Obama to step up and say, ‘I need an economywide […]
In the past the US has been acting like a spoiled child let loose in a candy store. The Bush administrations and the Clinton administration have not nurtured green technological energy alternatives sufficiently. Instead these administrations have acted like parents who periodically mention vegetables are good for you, but take you to the candy store […]
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My philosophy on climate change policy resembles a combination of the three lenses described by Parker and Blodgett in the CRS Report for Congress: the “technological lens,” the “economic lens,” and the “ecological lens.” Each lens has a different view of the global climate change problem. The technological lens views climate change as an opportunity […]
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