Biden Administration Deploys Prizes to Address Climate Change
The Department of Energy has announced a good way to spend some of the funds authorized by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
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At the U.N.'s Climate Change Conference, Nuclear Power Is Finally Getting Some Respect
The bigger problem now is that outmoded regulations stand in the way of deployment.
Climate Reparations and the Problem of Pervasive Corruption
At COP27, poor countries demand climate change "loss and damage" funding from rich countries.
Driving Electric Cars Produces Little Carbon. Making the Batteries Produces a Lot.
Many politicians who want to ban gas-powered vehicles appear to misunderstand the science.
California Advances Plan To Ban Gas Vehicle Sales by 2035
If the Golden State wants to convert to electrical vehicles, it better start embracing nuclear power.
Senate Committee Approves Climate Treaty
The pact will phase down the use of HFC coolants.
Meeting Paris Agreement Pledges Likely To Keep Warming Increase Below 2 Degrees C
But only if politicians 30 years from now keep promises made by politicians today.
Worst-Case Climate Change Scenarios Are Highly Implausible, Argues New Study
Global temperature to rise to around 2.2°C above the pre-industrial average by 2100.
Germany Shuts Down Three Perfectly Good Nuclear Power Plants
Teutonic carbon dioxide emissions and electricity prices are projected to increase as a result.
Will Glasgow Climate Promises Be Kept?
Accelerating market and technological trends will fortuitously keep many COP26 promises.
Furious Activists Walk Out of U.N. Climate Change Conference in Glasgow
The policies and technologies they reject as "false solutions" would actually work to mitigate climate change.
A Simple Step To Reduce Climate Change: More Trees
Planting trees as a partial solution to climate change has broad bipartisan appeal.
China, India, and Russia Aren't Interested in Updating Their Emissions Targets Before 2025
Meanwhile, the U.S.-China Joint Glasgow Declaration is "a stage-managed nothingburger."
Free Markets Are the Best and Fastest Way to Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Top-down mandates will only slow down the energy transition.
Lukewarm Promises at the U.N. Climate Change Conference
China and Russia aren’t interested in bigger emissions cuts.
Biden Will Promise To Cut U.S. Carbon Dioxide Emissions 50 Percent by 2030
The plan would require a substantial retirement of machines that run on fossil fuels.
What Would It Take To Reach Biden's Carbon-Free Electric Power Goal by 2035?
Parsing technology trends, policy proposals, and clean tax cuts
How Much Will the Planet Warm If Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Doubles?
A doubling of carbon dioxide all but guarantees warming of more than 2 degrees Celsius, says a new study.
Republican Lawmakers Introduce Trillion Trees Act To Combat Climate Change
A real plan or just a "climate messaging exercise"?
Peak Carbon Emissions?
Emissions reductions in rich countries are being offset by increases in developing countries.
Worst-Case 'Climate Porn' Is Counterproductive to Addressing Real Climate Change
"Stop using the worst-case scenario for climate warming as the most likely outcome"
Ecomodernism Is the Solution to Man-Made Climate Change
The Breakthrough Institute's Ted Nordhaus urges Americans to reject both doomism and denialism.
COP25: U.N. Climate Negotiations in Madrid Follow Traditional Dramatic Arc
Hope, despair, diplomatic equivocation
We Likely Won't Cut Carbon Dioxide Emissions 45 Percent by 2030
The "New World Energy Outlook" report by the International Energy Agency suggests global warming is here to stay.
Climate Activists Around the World Will Take to the Streets on Friday. Will Their Protests Matter?
Or, will global leaders ignore them just like they did the People's Climate March in 2014?
Peak Farmland Helps Solve Climate Change
It also protects and restores imperiled biodiversity.
Trump Tries On the Mantle of Environmental Leadership. Does He Deserve It?
"We're working hard, maybe harder than all previous administrations, maybe almost all of them."
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Wrong: There Is No Looming Climate Change 'Expiration Date'
No, our kids will not be doomed in 12 years if we don't adopt her Green New Deal.
Green New Deal Will Try Anything Except Nukes, Hydro, Markets…
Using climate change as an excuse to pursue other social and economic goals.
Economists Love Carbon Taxes. Lots of Regular Folks Don't.
Raising the price of gasoline, heat, and electricity is a steep political hill to climb.
What Would the Washington State Carbon Fee Initiative Really Accomplish?
Very little carbon reduction, lots of political patronage.
Every European Union Country Is Failing to Meet Their Climate Change Commitments
Meanwhile U.S. carbon dioxide emissions continue to fall
Sucking Carbon Dioxide from the Air to Produce Gasoline?
Carbon-neutral transportation fuels might be possible.
More Wind and Solar Power Perversely Locks In Fossil Fuel Generation
Skip renewables for zero-carbon electricity and go directly to nuclear
Paris Agreement Climate Change
Carbon Dioxide: U.S. Emissions Down, European Emissions Up
Despite the E.U.'s carbon markets and vast renewable energy subsidies
Climate Lawsuits Against Big Oil Are Likely a Useless Distraction
Funny: These cities didn't disclose any concerns about climate change in their bond issues.
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA Will Reportedly Revoke Obama's Clean Power Plan
Is the plan actually necessary for bringing emissions down?
Climate Models Run Too Hot: Settled Science Again
A Nature Geoscience study finds that humanity has more time to avert dangerous man-made warming.
'Atomic Humanism' and the Eco-Modernist Campaign to Promote Nuclear Power
"Only nuclear can lift all humans out of poverty while saving the natural environment."
Paris Agreement Climate Change
Should President Trump Keep His Promise to Cancel the Paris Agreement on Climate Change?
Instead, submit the Paris agreement as a treaty to Senate for a vote
Donald Trump's Climate Change Executive Order Will Make Energy Cheaper
But it will not bring back a lot of coal mining jobs.
U.S. Carbon Dioxide Emissions Fall 3 Percent
Global emissions flat for 3rd year in a row despite strong economic growth
Trump Administration to Review Obama-Era CAFE Standards
'We're going to work on the CAFE standards so you can make cars in America again'
The Social Cost of Carbon Calculation Debate*
Fatally flawed metric or the most important number that you've never heard of?
The Social Cost of Carbon and Congress: New at Reason
Underpins 80 federal regulations purportedly worth one trillion dollars
Climate Policy Actually Slowed Decarbonization Trends
Paris climate agreement will reduce global warming by 0.2 degrees Celsius by 2100