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The Economic Case for Slashing Carbon Emissions

By Yale Environment 360 on March 16, 2010 2 Comments Can We Afford the Future? Economics for a Warming World, carbon capture and storage, carbon emissions, Center for Progressive Reform, China, clean energy, clim, Climate Change, Climate Economics Group, climate policy, climate protection, climate skeptics, climate stabilization, CO2, coastal cities, cost-benefit analysi, E3 Network, economic disaste, Economics for Equity and Environment, Economics of 350: The Benefits and Costs of Climate Stabilization (E3 Network and Poisoned for Pennies: The Economics of Toxics and Precaution, Economist, economists, efficiency standards, emission standards, emissions reduction, Environmental Defense Fund, flooding, Frank Ackerman, GDP, Global Development and Environment Institute, Greenpeace, ice-free earth, MA, massive reforestation, McKinsey & Company, military spending, Nathaniel Keohane, National Association of Manufacturers, Peter Goldmark, phaseout of coal use, sea levels, Somerville, Stockholm Environment Institute, Tufts University, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, UCS, Union of Concerned Scientists, United States, Washington

Amid a growing call for reducing atmospheric concentrations of CO2 to 350 parts per million, a group of economists maintains that striving to meet that target is a smart investment — and the best insurance policy humanity could buy.

The Two-Headed Dragon ~ Energy/Water/Food Scarcity and Climate Change. Top Ten Policies that Feed it, and Two New Technologies that Could Enable us to Slay It and Save the Planet

By Jerry_Toman on June 25, 2009 2 Comments Albert Bartlett, Boulder, CAFÉ, carbon balance, carbon emissions, Climate Change, coal mining, economic growth, economists, Energy Scarcity, Food Scarcity, foreign oil, Forgotten Fundamentals of the Energy Crisis, Fuel scarcity, GDP, Jay Hanson, Jerry Toman, limits to growth, mega-projects, renewable energy, terra preta, University of Colorado, uranium mining, Water Scarcity

This post, by Jerry J. Toman, ScM, ChE examines five policies that are setting our future up for failure. They are: Reliance on the old-time political religion of economic growth (usually defined as by economists as GDP growth); Continue to practice incrementalism above all else, as the dominant means of solving the problems; Embarking willy-nilly into mega-projects that utilize technologies that often are half-baked in terms of knowing what the overall costs, impacts and benefits would be; Ignoring the “carbon balance” aspects of current practices and future remedies; and relying on technologies that involve extensive “mining” of the earth’s solid surface for minerals, as a means to achieve sustainability.

More Than 100 Economists Band Together to Fight Climate Change Skeptics – Launch RealClimateEconomics.org

By Tracey de Morsella on June 4, 2009 Comments Off on More Than 100 Economists Band Together to Fight Climate Change Skeptics – Launch RealClimateEconomics.org California, Climate Change, climate crisis, climate scientists, E3 Network, Economics for Equity and the Environment, economists, Elizabeth Stanton, energy policies, Frank Ackerman, gasoline taxes, greenhouse gas emissions, heating, junk economics, junk science, Kristen Sheeran, Oregon, per capita greenhouse gas emissions, public policy, public transportation, RealClimateEconomics.org, Rhode Island, skepticism, Stockholm Environment Institute, Tufts University, Vermont; New York, Washington

In recent times, junk economics has replaced junk science as the cause of inaction on climate change issues. The case for inaction is no longer argued on the grounds of skepticism about the science; instead, some claim that it is too expensive to take more than token action on key initiatives. In response to this trend, more than 100 of the country’s leading economists have banded together to launch RealClimateEconomics.org, an effort dedicated to using the weight of economic evidence to support effective public policy and business responses to the climate crisis. RealClimateEconomics.org is inspired by the success of RealClimate.org, a longtime effort by climate scientists to dispel the junk science popularized by climate skeptics.

Green Jobs Spotlight: Manager, SmartGrid Technologies – ICF International, Fairfax, VA

By Tracey de Morsella on May 4, 2009 Comments Off on Green Jobs Spotlight: Manager, SmartGrid Technologies – ICF International, Fairfax, VA air emissions markets, Climate Change, cyber security, defense, DOE, economists, electric power generation facility, emergency management markets, energy, engineers, environment, EPA, FERC, health, ICF International, ICFI, industrial boiler facilities, innovative analytics, integrated market analysis, integrated market modeling, natural gas, North American electric power, oil and gas reservoirs, power producers, program life cycle, regulatory support, SmartGrid, social programs, technology solutions, transmission analysis, transmission facilities, transportation, utilities, utility

To support our client’s needs, we seek individuals with expertise in the understanding of SmartGrid technologies, as well as implementation and policy issues. In this role you will build and manage a group of engineers, economists and other professionals to support utility and government clients that seek to evaluate and install SmartGrid technologies. You will work directly with internal ICF staff, our customers and partners for the purpose of providing advanced business solutions that address the SmartGrid challenges of the utility industry.