The GAO’s Panel of Economists on Climate
I just ran across a May 2008 GAO report, detailing the findings of a panel of economists convened to consider US climate policy. The panel used a modified Delphi method, which can be good or evil. The...
View ArticleWCI Design Recommendations
Yesterday the WCI announced its design recommendations. Update 9/26: WorldChanging has another take on the WCI here. I haven’t read the whole thing, but here’s my initial impression based on the...
View ArticleReality-free Cap and Trade?
Over at Prometheus, Roger Pielke picks on Nancy Pelosi: Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) adds to a long series of comments by Democrats that emphasize cost as a crucial criterion for evaluating cap and...
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Waxman-Markey emissions coverage
In an effort to get a handle on Waxman Markey, I’ve been digging through the EPA’s analysis. Here’s a visualization of covered vs. uncovered emissions in 2016 (click through for the interactive...
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Allocation Oddity
Mining my hard drive for stuff I did a few weeks back, when the Waxman Markey draft was just out, I ran across this graph: It shows prices for electricity and petroleum from the ADAGE model in the June...
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