How to Get Where We Need to Go
March 9, 2011 1 min. read

Fatih Birol, the chief economist of the International Energy Agency, and Nicholas Stern, the most distinguished economist in the world working on climate change, have an op-ed in today’s Financial Times:  Urgent steps to stop the climate door closing.  They say we must have a much greater emphasis on energy efficiency, a “price on carbon” […]

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Gas, Renewables and Fracking
January 23, 2011 4 min. read

(Here’s a great graphic from DOE’s Energy Information Administration that shows how we deploy energy in the US.  Gas is a big factor.) I caught this comprehensive but succinct item at the NYT recently:  Time to Tap the Bounty of U.S. Natural Gas.  It lays out the fact of the astonishing ballooning of new, proven […]

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Top Economists on Climate Change and Energy
June 7, 2010 4 min. read

The indispensable (to me anyway) “NY Review of Books” has an insightful look at Bill McKibben’s new book, Eaarth.  The reviewer is no less a personage than Nicholas Stern.  In generally praising “McKibben’s engaging and persuasive book,” Lord Stern gives a particularly succinct summary of the history of the science and present state of the […]

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