All posts in tag: carbon emissions

Carol Zabin Going green and growing jobs, the right way

Carol Zabin, research director, Center for Labor Research & Education | 3/26/13 | 3 comments

It’s time for California, long a leader in green energy investment, to take another big step forward on the environment and job creation.

When Californians passed Proposition 39 last year, they voted for more carbon reduction, school improvements and jobs – all through a five-year, $2.5 billion program using revenues from … More >

Maximillian Auffhammer Doha schmoha

Maximillian Auffhammer, associate professor, agricultural and resource economics | 12/12/12 | 2 comments

On Saturday (Dec. 8) another wildly unsuccessful round of climate negotiations, in Doha, Qatar, concluded with applying a band aid to solve the rapidly accelerating climate problem. The 1997 Kyoto accord was extended to 2020. If you think this is a good thing, you are severely mistaken. China, the US … More >

Rich Muller The conversion of a climate-change skeptic

Rich Muller, professor of physics | 7/30/12 | 21 comments

Call me a converted skeptic. Three years ago I identified problems in previous climate studies that, in my mind, threw doubt on the very existence of global warming. Last year, following an intensive research effort involving a dozen scientists, I concluded that global warming was real and that the prior … More >

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