How eucalyptus trees are connected to denying climate change
Here on Legal Planet, we talk a lot about climate skeptics/deniers, and we’re highly critical of them (for good reason!). A lot of those climate skeptics/deniers are conservatives.
But ...
Coal Power and Climate Denial
What causes certain political figures either to deny the potential for climate change, or deny that human activity is a major cause? That question came to mind while reviewing a new ...
The Economics of Insurance in the Face of Climate Change
Eduardo Porter offers a “teachable moment” thanks to his NY Times Business piece on insurance today. He writes a piece arguing that for profit “conservative” ...
The Economics of Insurance in the Face of Climate Change
Eduardo Porter offers a “teachable moment” thanks to his NY Times Business piece on insurance today. He wants to write a piece arguing that for profit “conservative” ...
California Supreme Court Upholds Local Government Bans on Pot Dispensaries
In its most important land use decision since 2011, the California Supreme Court has upheld local governments’ power to ban marijuana dispensaries within their jurisdictions. ...
California Supreme Court Upholds Local Government Bans on Pot Dispensaries
In its most important land use decision since 2011, the California Supreme Court has upheld local governments’ power to ban marijuana dispensaries within their jurisdictions. ...
Some Overdue Environmental Justice In Time for Shavuot
The Jewish festival of Shavuot, which begins at sundown this evening, commemorates the Israelites’ receiving of the Torah at Mt. Sinai. Shavuot is thus the paradigmatic lawyers’ ...
Discount Rates and Middle-Class Stagnation
Discount rates are how economists measure the importance of the future versus the present. If the discount rate is low, we care a lot about the future; the reverse is true if the ...
Why it’s important that we know that we’re at 400 ppm of CO2
A major (and unfortunate) milestone has been crossed this past week. Measurements of atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide passed 400 parts per million, the highest in millions of ...
The Insurance Industry Helps Us to Adapt to Climate Change
The NY Times reports that insurance rates are rising in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy for coastal communities. As I argued back in 2010 in my Climatopolis book, such “price ...
WARNING: Individual Research Findings and Economic Models May Not Be Fully Grounded.
FINDINGS NOT VALIDATED OR REPLICATED. PROCEED WITH EXTREME CAUTION.
A couple of weeks ago, a major paper on the economics of government deficits turned out to have huge flaws. Matt ...
Alberta, Open Sewers and the Keystone Pipeline
Al Gore raised the hackles of the Canadian government this week when he criticized the country’s large scale extraction of oil from the Alberta tar sands. The tar sand oil reserves ...
Niall Ferguson, Climate Smear Artist
Don’t Buy A Used Car From This Man
Big kerfluffle over the weekend concerning remarks by right-wing Harvard Professor Niall Ferguson, who claimed that Keynesian economics is not ...
Eric Cantor Leads the Anti-NSF Chorus
Only YOU Can Stop Scientific Research
Eric Cantor, the House Majority Leader, is rounding up the good citizens of the country for a campaign against those evil scientists who are wasting ...
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