This is What America will Look Like if We Follow Trump’s Climate Policies

By Joe Romm, Climate Progress

The United States faces a choice between manageable warming and unmanageable catastrophe, according to a leaked draft report by scientists from 13 federal agencies. The report’s “higher emissions” scenario projects a devastating 8°F to 10°F warming over the interior of this country–and, unimaginably, upwards of 18°F over in the Arctic!–by 2071 to 2100. In that case, global sea levels could rise as much as 8 feet, inundating every major coastal city in this country and around the world.

Delusions of Grandeur in Building a Low-Carbon Future

By Carey W. King, Earth Magazine

There is a very real trade-off between the rate at which we address climate change and the amount of economic growth we can expect during the transition to a low-carbon economy, but most economic models insufficiently address this trade-off, and thus are incapable of assessing the transition.

We aren’t Doomed by Climate Change. Right Now we are Choosing to be Doomed.

By Joe Romm, Climate Progress

New York Magazine has stirred up a firestorm of debate by publishing a worst-case scenario for climate change this week, “The Uninhabitable Earth” by David Wallace-Wells.

The Most Important and Misleading Assumption in the World

By Carey W. King, Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation blog

Why should we make policy using economic models that don’t reflect what should be obvious to a third-grader?

Macro and Climate Economics: It’s Time to Talk about the “Elephant in the Room”

By Carey W. King, Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation blog

Economic growth...in macroeconomic models is the so-called elephant in the room that, unfortunately, almost no one talks about or seeks to improve.

CO2 Concentration in “Panic and Repent” scenarios

By Stuart Staniford, Early Warning

In Friday's post, I argued that the likely pattern of human response to climate change would be characterized by very limited action until manifestly serious consequences were clear by looking out the window; then, and only then would serious action ensue. In other words, the pattern would be one of panic and repentance.