Government Accountability Office http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-10-903?source=ra Policymakers have raised questions about geoengineering–large-scale deliberate interventions in the earth’s climate system to diminish climate change or its impacts–and its role in a broader strategy of mitigating and adapting to climate change. Most geoengineering proposals fall into two categories: carbon dioxide removal (CDR), which would remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from … Continue reading »
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Phytosequestration: Carbon Biosequestration by Plants and the Prospects of Genetic Engineering
Bioscience (Oct. 10, 2010) v60 n9 pp685-696 / by by Christer Jansson, Stan D. Wullschleger, Udaya C. Kalluri, and Gerald A. Tuskan www.aibs.org/bioscience-press-releases/…/Jansson%20et%20al.pdf [From a Scientific American article by Mike Orcutt] Human activities currently add about nine gigatons of carbon to the atmosphere yearly. Photosynthetic organisms on land and in the ocean absorb about five … Continue reading »
Carbon Prices and Automobile Greenhouse Gas Emissions: The Extensive and Intensive Margins
National Bureau of Economic Research / Christopher R. Knittel and Ryan Sandler http://www.nber.org/papers/w16482.pdf?new_window=1 Abstract: The transportation sector accounts for nearly one third of the United States’ greenhouse gas emissions. While over the past number of decades, policy makers have avoided directly pricing the externalities from vehicles, both in terms of global and more local pollutants … Continue reading »
Free Access to Springer Economics Journals Through November 30
Springer Journals http://www.springer.com/?SGWID=0-102-0-0-0 Until November 30, 2010, Springer Publishing is offering free unlimited access to a number of new and established economics journals. You can access the individual journals by clicking on their names below. Public Choice Environmental & Resource Economics Economic Theory Journal of Global Optimization Journal of Risk and Uncertainty Review of World … Continue reading »
