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Climate Change

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.

Ronald Bailey | 4.14.2022 4:24 PM

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Will Glasgow Climate Promises Be Kept?

Accelerating market and technological trends will fortuitously keep many COP26 promises.

Ronald Bailey | 11.18.2021 2:02 PM

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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.

Ronald Bailey | 11.12.2021 4:50 PM

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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."

Ronald Bailey | 11.11.2021 1:10 PM

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An Outbreak of Climate Optimism

But only if politicians keep their promises.

Ronald Bailey | 11.5.2021 2:45 PM

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The Scariest Predictions in the New U.N. Climate Report Are Also the Most Unlikely

The Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change issues its Sixth Assessment Report on the global climate.

Ronald Bailey | 8.9.2021 3:01 PM

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12 Years to Disaster? How Climate Activists Distort the Evidence

The data behind apocalypse 2030 is based on placing blame, not predicting the future.

Aaron Brown | 4.30.2021 1:38 PM

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U.S. More Than Meets Pledged Copenhagen Climate Accord Greenhouse Gas Emissions Cuts

"The vast majority of 2020's emission reductions were due to decreased economic activity."

Ronald Bailey | 1.12.2021 2:40 PM

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Biden Pledges to Rejoin Paris Climate Agreement

His plan says that by 2035, no electric power should be generated by burning fossil fuels, and the U.S. should commit to zero net emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050.

Ronald Bailey | 1.12.2021 6:00 AM

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The U.S. Officially Withdraws from the Paris Agreement on Climate Change

Biden would rejoin on day one of his administration.

Ronald Bailey | 11.4.2020 4:00 PM

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Activists Denounce Madrid Climate Change Conference Outcomes as 'Totally Unacceptable' and 'Deeply Flawed'

COP25 whimpers to its inconclusive close.

Ronald Bailey | 12.16.2019 3:20 PM

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COP25: U.N. Climate Negotiations in Madrid Follow Traditional Dramatic Arc

Hope, despair, diplomatic equivocation

Ronald Bailey | 12.11.2019 12:35 PM

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How Big of a Deal Is an Extra Half Degree of Global Warming?

New report declares world must be off fossil fuels entirely by 2050.

Ronald Bailey | 10.11.2018 10:05 AM

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Carbon Dioxide: U.S. Emissions Down, European Emissions Up

Despite the E.U.'s carbon markets and vast renewable energy subsidies

Ronald Bailey | 5.4.2018 4:00 PM

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23rd U.N. Climate Change Conference Opens in Bonn

The Trump administration sends low-level bureaucrats as delegates to the climate negotiations.

Ronald Bailey | 11.7.2017 3:15 PM

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Coal as 'Clean' as Natural Gas?

A renaissance for King Coal?

Ronald Bailey | 6.9.2017 10:40 AM

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Paris Climate Agreement Wasn't Going to Save the Planet

So America's withdrawal won't lead to global doom.

Shikha Dalmia | 6.6.2017 10:00 AM

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The Progressive Left Devours Its Own [Reason Podcast]

Nick Gillespie, Andrew Heaton, Katherine Mangu-Ward, & Matt Welch on terrorism, climate change, Bill Maher, Kathy Griffin, Evergreen, and more.

Nick Gillespie and Ian Keyser | 6.5.2017 4:15 PM

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Trump Exaggerates Price of Paris Climate Accord

Today, as in the past, the opponents of environmental protection vastly exaggerate the expense of reducing pollution.

Steve Chapman | 6.5.2017 10:15 AM

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Paris Pullout, Russia Reboots, and LeBron Hate Crimes: The New Fifth Column

Also listen to the Sirius XM POTUS version Sunday at 3 pm ET

Matt Welch | 6.3.2017 2:55 PM

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Pulling Out of Paris Won't Doom the Planet

Trump may be nuts but liberals need to get a grip.

Shikha Dalmia | 6.2.2017 9:47 AM

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Paris Agreement Pull-out Hysteria: Watch Kennedy on Fox Business Network at 8 pm ET

Matt Welch joins panel for discussion about Trump's symbolic anti-multilateralist move

Matt Welch | 6.1.2017 7:50 PM

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Trump Announces Withdrawal From Paris Climate Deal. What Happens Now?

The climate after Trump

Ronald Bailey | 6.1.2017 3:50 PM

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Can Trump Unilaterally Withdraw from International Climate Agreements?

Here's what the law says.

Ronald Bailey | 6.1.2017 9:15 AM

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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

Ronald Bailey | 5.4.2017 3:45 PM

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For U.S. 'Dangerous' Climate Change Is Like Moving 180 Miles South: New at Reason

New study finds Americans would prefer warmer weather on balance

Ronald Bailey | 4.7.2017 1:30 PM

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Donald Trump's Climate Change Executive Order Will Make Energy Cheaper

But it will not bring back a lot of coal mining jobs.

Ronald Bailey | 3.28.2017 2:55 PM

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Climate Scientists Manipulated Temperature Data to Fool Politicians and Public, Claims 'Whistleblower'

Another update on the 'settled science' of climate change

Ronald Bailey | 2.6.2017 1:20 PM

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Climate Policy Actually Slowed Decarbonization Trends

Paris climate agreement will reduce global warming by 0.2 degrees Celsius by 2100

Ronald Bailey | 11.29.2016 3:20 PM

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Energy Poverty Is Much Worse for the Poor Than Climate Change

Forcing poor people to forego economic development in order to prevent climate change is 'morally dubious'

Ronald Bailey | 11.25.2016 1:30 PM

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Trump Will 'Keep an Open Mind' About the Paris Climate Change Agreement

So says the president-elect in an interview this afternoon with the New York Times.

Ronald Bailey | 11.22.2016 3:45 PM

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No More Coal for Rich Countries by 2030

Is such a scheme for eliminating coal in just 13 years as a source of electric power generation in rich countries likely?

Ronald Bailey | 11.15.2016 10:15 AM

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Game Over for the Climate?

First dispatch from COP22: Trump, Peak Carbon Dioxide, and Extreme Weather Events.

Ronald Bailey | 11.14.2016 9:59 AM

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2016 Could Edge Out 1998 as Hottest Year in Satellite Temperature Record

U.N. climate change meeting opens today in Marrakech, Morocco.

Ronald Bailey | 11.7.2016 10:40 AM

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Election 2016 and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change: New at Reason

Is joining the new universal climate accord irreversible?

Ronald Bailey | 11.4.2016 2:01 PM

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Paris Climate Agreement Comes Into Effect

U.S. not on track to meet Obama's promised greenhouse gas cuts

Ronald Bailey | 10.5.2016 11:45 AM

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