Climate Rationality

Climate Rationality

From Bias to Balance

Johnston, Jason S.

Cambridge University Press

08/2021

280

Dura

Inglês

9781108415637

15 a 20 dias

1040

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1. Introduction; Part I. The Costs of Precautionary Policy: 2. The endangerment game; 3. The precautionary principle: what it does and doesn't do; 4. EPA's newfound role in regulating automobile mileage; 5. 'It will bankrupt you' - using environmental regulations to end the mining and use of coal in the United States; 6. The clean power plan, the rule of law, and EPA's takeover of state and regional electricity systems; 7. Renewable power and the reliabilty and cost of electricity; 8. Renewable power subsidies and mandates: harming today's environment and punishing the poor; 9. Spinning the tort liability roulette wheel; Part II. The Other Side of the Story: the Structure, Process and Output of Climate Science Assessment Institutions and the Science they Neglect: 10. But is it true? The case for taking a critical look at the economic and physical science underlying estimates of the benefits of ghg emission reduction; 11. 'Born in politics': the rise of the climate change science production and assessment complex; 12. Settling science and propagandizing for action: the structure, process and products of the climate science production complex; 13. Recent observed climate change in longer term perspective; 14. Beyond co2: causes of regional climate change that the IPCC has ignored; 15. Projecting future climate from computer models and far, far distant earth history; 16. The precautionary social cost of carbon; Part III. Toward Rational Climate Policy: 17. Adapt and prosper; 18. The surprising sahel; 19. Selected policy implications.
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