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  • Ya gotta have faith

    Why we overestimate the costs of climate change legislation 12

    Posted 5 months ago

    The way economists calculate the costs of tackling climate change misses low-carbon alternatives and underestimates innovation. Just as economic models have overestimated the cost of virtually every environmental regulation in history, so today they're overestimating the costs of the clean energy revolution.

  • Nerd wars!

    Blogospheric passions run high on, um, the CBO report 0

    Posted 5 months ago

    After watching a tedious press conference this morning at which not a single question was asked about the Waxman-Markey bill (after Obama endorsed it!), I'm happy to see that somebody outside the dreary confines of "green blogging" is grappling with it. If it all happens to be obsessively focused on the CBO report, well, I'll take what I can get.

    Let's take a walk through the last few days of action.

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