by Yoram Bauman http://www.standupeconomist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Grading-Econ-Climate-2010.pdf I’ve got a new report out today (Dec 1 2010): “Grading Economics Textbooks on Climate Change”, which evaluates the nation’s top-selling economics textbooks based on the accuracy of their treatment of climate science and climate economics. This report is published by Sightline Institute, a think tank I’ve had a long-standing association … Continue reading »
Posted on December 3, 2010 …
Summary: U.S. Crude Oil, Natural Gas, and Natural Gas Liquids Reserves
US DOE, Energy Information Administration http://www.eia.doe.gov/neic/press/press349.html#2010_11_30 Shale Gas Development Drives U.S. Natural Gas Proved Reserves to Highest Level Since 1971: U.S. natural gas proved reserves, estimated as “wet” gas which includes natural gas plant liquids, increased by 11 percent in 2009 to 284 trillion cubic feet (Tcf), the highest level since 1971, according to the … Continue reading »
Confronting the American Divide on Carbon Emissions Regulation
Center for Global Progress / by David Wheeler http://tinyurl.com/2g88y2e This paper asks why the tragic American impasse has occurred, while the EU has succeeded in implementing carbon regulation. Both cases have involved negotiations between relatively rich “Green” regions and relatively poor “Brown” (carbon-intensive) regions…The European negotiation has succeeded because the interregional disparity in carbon intensity … Continue reading »
Reg Stat
US EPA http://www.epa.gov/regstat/ [From Reg Stat website] The primary focus of this website is to provide basic data and statistics on the more prominent rules issued by the EPA Administrator during the period 2005-2009. EPA protects public health and the environment in a variety of ways, but one of the most important ways is through … Continue reading »
2010 Carbon Sequestration Atlas of the United States and Canada
National Energy Technology Laboratory, DOE http://www.netl.doe.gov/technologies/carbon_seq/refshelf/atlasIII/ [From Foreword] Atlas III provides a coordinated update of carbon capture and storage (CCS) potential across most of the United States and portions of Canada. The primary purpose of Atlas III is to update the carbon dioxide (CO2) storage potential for the United States and Canada, and to provide … Continue reading »
The Spatial Expansion and Ecological Footprint of Fisheries (1950 to Present)
PLoS One / Wilf Swartz, Enric Sala, Sean Tracey, Reg Watson, Daniel Pauly http://tinyurl.com/2e3yp5y [Abstract] Using estimates of the primary production required (PPR) to support fisheries catches (a measure of the footprint of fishing), we analyzed the geographical expansion of the global marine fisheries from 1950 to 2005. We used multiple threshold levels of PPR … Continue reading »
