Category Archives: Back to Basics

An Early Delivery for Earth Day: A Modest Plan to Save the Planet

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The Greenland ice sheet is melting “freakishly early” this spring.  Climate change has exacerbated this year’s El Nino such that it is causing “gruesome” and “unprecedented” coral death. New studies suggest that the West Antarctic ice sheet could disintegrate within decades instead of over hundreds or even thousands of years, leading to more rapid ocean level rise.  […]

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Worried About Fugitive Methane Emissions from Fracking? Embrace Pure Cap-and-Dividend

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The current debate over “fugitive methane emissions” from natural gas systems – meaning emissions of unburned gas from the drilling site and from leakage in the natural gas transportation and distribution pipelines – illustrates the need for a broad-based climate policy.  Pure Cap-and-Dividend answers this need, covering as many anthropogenic (human-caused) sources of greenhouse gas […]

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Decoding the “Price on Carbon” Jargon – Part II

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In today’s New York Times, Coral Davenport reports, “More than two dozen of the nation’s biggest corporations, including the five major oil companies, are planning their future growth on the expectation that the government will force them to pay a price for carbon pollution as a way to control global warming.” That’s great news.  And […]

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Decoding the “Price on Carbon” Jargon

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Academics serious about addressing the climate crisis agree: we need to put a price on carbon.  But it’s tough to sell an idea without a shared vocabulary and many people are unclear about what this phrase – “put a price on carbon” – even means.  Still more are puzzled by terms like “cap-and-trade,” “fee-and-dividend,” and […]

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