Clean Air Causing Global Warming?
It seems that the leading man-made cause of global warming is environmentalism; specifically, efforts to improve air quality by reducing pollution, New Scientist reports. Since 1980, average air temperatures in Europe have risen 1 °C: much more than expected from greenhouse-gas warming alone. Christian Ruckstuhl of the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science in Switzerland and colleagues took aerosol concentrations from ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on July 11, 2008 16:46
States vs. Feds on Global Warming
Today's Washington Post summarizes an impending Clean Air Act case regarding the EPA's authority to regulate carbon dioxide emissions. The Bush administration is defending its refusal to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from new motor vehicles in the first case about global warming to reach the Supreme Court. The Environmental Protection Agency lacks the power to regulate carbon dioxide as a ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on November 29, 2006 17:13
A Bet I Wont Take
Kevin Drum likes the California initiative to slow global warming. He likes it so much he is willing to put his money where his mouth is...sort of. And Jane Galt/Megan McArdle seems willing to take the bet. I wouldn't take this bet. Kevin tends to take a really narrow view of what economics costs are. For example, ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on September 1, 2006 16:09
Gas Prices Plummeting
$2.50 a gallon gasoline might be right around the corner: Gasoline prices are falling fast and could keep dropping for months. "The only place they have to go is down," says Fred Rozell, gasoline analyst at the Oil Price Information Service (OPIS). "We'll be closer to $2 than $3 come Thanksgiving." And just in time for the fall elections, too! I blame Bush. ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on August 30, 2006 17:18
This Is No Way To Run A Market
Yesterday I wrote on the successes of the European carbon market. Well, a new piece from The Economist ($) points to some flaws in the way the market was established. Among the shortcomings, the pollution credits were not auctioned off so companies would be forced to look at the the amount they would need given the caps. To top ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on June 9, 2006 02:35
Would = Could, Or Why Are Journalists Often Such Idiots?
While at work the other day I saw an interesting headline to an article. State emissions cap would help economy while saving the air My first thought was, "Hmmm...I wonder if they'll talk about improved economic efficiency?" So I read the article. And nowhere in the article does it talk about economic efficiency. Instead in the third to last ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on February 22, 2006 17:37
