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UNFCCC

Double entendre?

Climate Change

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

Next year in Glasgow!

Climate Change

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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Climate Change

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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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

Ronald Bailey | 5.4.2017 3:45 PM

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UNFCCC

Is Climate Change Already Solved?

"The market is clearly headed towards clean energy, and that trend will only become more pronounced."

Ronald Bailey | 11.18.2016 10:15 AM

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United Nations

Keep It In The Ground: A Global Carbon Budget

"Globally, a third of oil reserves, half of gas reserves and over 80 per cent of current coal reserves should remain unused."

Ronald Bailey | 11.17.2016 10:15 AM

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John Kerry

John Kerry's Climate Change Swan Song at Marrakech

"No one has the right to make decisions that affect billions of people based solely on ideology."

Ronald Bailey | 11.16.2016 3:15 PM

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UNFCCC

Is the 'Momentum' for Action on Climate Change Unstoppable?

"Acknowledging the uncertainty we are all feeling with regard to the changes in the political situation in the United States."

Ronald Bailey | 11.16.2016 10:25 AM

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Paris Agreement Climate Change

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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Temperature Trends

2016 Likely Hottest Year in Instrumental Record, Says WMO

"Another year. Another record. The high temperatures we saw in 2015 are set to be beaten in 2016."

Ronald Bailey | 11.14.2016 11:01 AM

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Donald Trump

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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Donald Trump

Trump and the Climate Activist Freakout

Whistling past the graveyard by climate activists at Morocco climate conference

Ronald Bailey | 11.9.2016 10:10 AM

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Temperature Trends

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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Paris Climate Change Conference

Paris Climate Confab Preview: Culmination or Crack-Up?

The endgame in the quest for a universal climate treaty

Ronald Bailey | 11.27.2015 1:30 PM

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Paris Climate Change Conference

Paris Climate Conference Greenhouse Gas Cuts: Almost No Impact on Global Warming

Plenty of economic pain for a likely reduction in global temperature rise of about -0.17°C in 2100

Ronald Bailey | 11.10.2015 9:15 AM

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Computer modeling

World Could Still Keep Future Man-Made Warming Below 2 Degrees Celsius

So says the new U.N. analysis of national climate plans from 146 countries

Ronald Bailey | 10.30.2015 11:33 AM

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UNFCCC

The Relentless March Toward a New Universal Agreement on Climate Change

Rich countries commit to total decarbonization of the global economy.

Ronald Bailey | 6.12.2015 9:30 AM

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Carbon Dioxide

Carbon Markets or Recessions: Which Cuts Greenhouse Gases More?

The global financial crisis is responsible for 80 percent of Europe's GHG reductions.

Ronald Bailey | 5.15.2015 8:53 AM

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Greenhouse gases

What Evidence Would Persuade You That Man-Made Climate Change Is Real?

Scientific evidence does not mandate any particular policy.

Ronald Bailey | 4.3.2015 11:45 AM

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Russia

Russia Pledges Essentially Zero To Global Greenhouse Gas Goals

Russia's intended nationally determined contribution by 2030 is ... nothing

Ronald Bailey | 4.1.2015 12:19 PM

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Barack Obama

President Obama Pledges to Cut U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions 28 Percent By 2025

Who needs advice and consent anymore?

Ronald Bailey | 3.31.2015 6:03 PM

UNFCCC

The Paris Climate Negotiations Next Year Will Be a Fiasco

Why there will not be a global climate change treaty in 2015

Ronald Bailey | 12.19.2014 1:30 PM

UNFCCC

Ronald Bailey Predicts Paris Climate Negotiations Next Year Will Be a Fiasco

Reason Staff | 12.19.2014 1:30 PM

UNFCCC

'Lima COP on verge of failing people and the planet,' say activists

Ronald Bailey | 12.12.2014 5:31 PM

John Kerry

Debunking John Kerry's Claim That Climate Change Is a Great Investment Opportunity

If renewable, new nuclear, or even fusion energy is actually becoming cheaper than conventional fossil fuels, why would the world need an international treaty at all?

Ronald Bailey | 12.12.2014 10:30 AM

Al Gore

Al Gore Gives Good Powerpoint

But the former VP is not always completely accurate

Ronald Bailey | 12.11.2014 10:30 AM

UNFCCC

Should Rich Countries Compensate Poor Countries for Climate Change Damages?

There's optimism a climate change deal can be reached at UN conference in Peru.

Ronald Bailey | 12.8.2014 10:30 AM

United Nations

Ronald Bailey Ponders a Futuro Caliente and Fucking For Forests at the U.N. Climate Meeting

Reason Staff | 12.8.2014 10:30 AM

Carbon Dioxide

U.S.—China Deal: Great Leap Forward on Climate Change?

Ronald Bailey | 11.13.2014 1:02 PM

United Nations

A Parade of Progressive Causes at the People's Climate March

No Nukes, No Fracking, No GMOs, and Certainly No Capitalism

Ronald Bailey | 9.22.2014 9:30 AM

UNFCCC

Obama Resorts to "Political Magic" to Carry Out His Stealthy Global Climate Change Strategy

Ronald Bailey | 8.27.2014 11:41 AM

Temperature Trends

Warsaw Climate Change Conference Inconclusively Concludes

Reason's science correspondent sends a final dispatch from the U.N. Climate Change Conference

Ronald Bailey | 11.25.2013 3:30 PM

UNFCCC

Warsaw Climate Change Conference Goes Into Overtime

Ronald Bailey | 11.22.2013 3:31 PM

UNFCCC

Mythmaking and "Massive Walkouts" at the Warsaw Climate Change Conference

Ronald Bailey | 11.22.2013 1:12 PM

Temperature Trends

Worried About the Climate? End Subsidies

Reason's science correspondent sends a fourth dispatch from the U.N. Climate Change Conference

Ronald Bailey | 11.22.2013 10:00 AM

UNFCCC

Ronald Bailey Argues It Is Crazy to Subsidize Activities that Might Harm the Climate

Reason Staff | 11.22.2013 10:00 AM

UNFCCC

Who's Responsible for Damaging the Climate? And Who Should Pay for It?

Reason's science correspondent sends a third dispatch from the U.N. Climate Change Conference

Ronald Bailey | 11.21.2013 9:00 AM

UNFCCC

Loss and Damage: The Third Era of Climate Change?

Reason's science correspondent sends a second dispatch from the U.N. Climate Change Conference

Ronald Bailey | 11.20.2013 9:00 AM

UNFCCC

Ronald Bailey on the Third Era of Climate Change: Loss and Damage

Reason Staff | 11.20.2013 9:00 AM

UNFCCC

Witnessing the "Last Coughs" of a Dying Coal Industry in Warsaw?

Reason's science correspondent sends a first dispatch from the U.N. Climate Change Conference

Ronald Bailey | 11.19.2013 9:00 AM

Climate Sensitivity

Greenhouse Gas Concentrations in the Atmosphere Reach New Record

Ronald Bailey | 11.6.2013 11:40 AM

Obama Administration

Obama's Climate Five-Year Plan

The president proposes ecological central planning to solve global warming

Ronald Bailey | 6.28.2013 1:30 PM

Barack Obama

Obama Promises a Big Push on Climate Change

The president appears determined to confront climate change, with or without the help of Congress.

Ronald Bailey | 1.22.2013 5:15 PM

Free Markets

Free Markets Save the Planet

Nick Sibilla | 1.27.2012 5:34 PM

Durban Climate Change Conference

Durban Climate Change Vows Made To Be Broken

While the planet may not be saved, future climate change conferences have been.

Ronald Bailey | 12.13.2011 4:30 PM

Green Climate Fund

The Kyoto Protocol Is Dead, Long Live the Kyoto Protocol

Reason's science correspondent sends a fifth dispatch from the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Durban.

Ronald Bailey | 12.9.2011 10:30 AM

COP-17

Delusional in Durban

Reason's science correspondent sends a first dispatch from the U.N. Climate Change Conference.

Ronald Bailey | 12.5.2011 10:30 AM

Cancun

Cancun Climate Change Shakedown

First dispatch from the United Nations Climate Change conference in Cancun

Ronald Bailey | 12.7.2010 10:30 AM

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