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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Bonn of Contention Yet another international climate meeting gets rollin'		02 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 3:19 PM on 02 Jun 2008 Yet another round of international climate talks has kicked off, this time in Bonn, Germany. More than 2,000 delegates from 162 countries will chit-chat over the next two weeks about the details of an agreement to succeed the Kyoto Protocol. But no significant steps forward are expected out of Bonn; most major decisions on the next treaty have been put off until 2009, when the U.S. delegat ...
Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, climate change mitigation, international treaties, news (all these topics)

'Bombshell'? Really? RPJr.'s latest achievement in getting huge news coverage for saying very little	David Roberts	03 Apr 2008	Gristmill
I don't want to get too far into the kerfuffle over the Nature commentary from Pielke Jr. et al. Just a few quick and I guess fairly cynical thoughts: The trend toward "spontaneous" technology development and efficiency has been going on for centuries, only to pause during the last few years thanks to a burst of new dirty coal plants in the developing world. The whole commentary is premised on the idea that this is the new norm -- that "spontaneous&quo ...
Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, climate change mitigation, energy, energy efficiency, tech (all these topics)

Is 450 ppm (or less) politically possible? Part 1 We'll need a lot of Socolow and Pacala's wedges	Joseph Romm	01 Apr 2008	Gristmill
The short answer is: 'Not today -- not even close.' The long answer is the subject of this post. Regular readers know that the nation and the world currently lack the political will to stabilize atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide at 450 ppm or even 550 ppm. The political impossibility is also obvious from anyone familiar with Princeton's 'stabilization wedges' [PDF] -- and if you aren't, you should be (technical paper here [PDF], less technical one here [ ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, climate, climate change adaptation, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

The adaptation trap 2: The not-so-honest broker More on Roger Pielke, Jr.	Joseph Romm	31 Mar 2008	Gristmill
In Part 1, we saw that ... Adaptation as primary strategy for dealing with climate change is widely oversold. This is especially true as atmospheric CO2 concentrations approach 800 to 1,000 ppm, a likely outcome if we listen to either the delayers or deniers. A leading adaptation advocate and apparent delayer-1000, Roger Pielke, Jr., 'labels adaptation what is in fact mitigation, and his idea of mitigation is apparently research into adaptation.' Let me ela ...
Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, climate change mitigation, climate change skepticism, greenhouse-gas emissions, IPCC (all these topics)

The adaptation trap and the nonskeptical delayers (like Roger Pielke) -- Part 1 Pielke labels adaptation what is actually mitigation	Joseph Romm	31 Mar 2008	Gristmill
The wheels may be falling off the media's climate discussion, if a recent L.A. Times piece is any evidence. The piece, 'Global warming: Just deal with it, some scientists say,' is really an article about not dealing with it. The L.A. Times, with the help of the delayer-1000 du jour, Roger Pielke, Jr., has brought to prominence (and fallen for) what I call the 'adaptation trap': The adaptation trap is the belief that 1) 'it would be easier and cheaper to adapt than fig ...
Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, climate change mitigation, climate change skepticism, greenhouse-gas emissions, IPCC (all these topics)

Down the rabbit hole with Roger L.A. Times mischaracterizes Pielke Jr.'s arguments in such a way as to make them newsworthy	David Roberts	27 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Early in this L.A. Times piece, reporter Alan Zarembo characterizes Roger Pielke Jr.'s views as follows: His research has led him to believe that it is cheaper and more effective to adapt to global warming than to fight it. Instead of spending trillions of dollars to stabilize carbon dioxide levels across the planet -- an enormously complex and expensive proposition -- the world could work on reducing hunger, storm damage, and disease now, thereby neutral ...
Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, climate change mitigation (all these topics)

The high costs of doing nothing, part I Spending on adaptation and mitigation now is an investment, spending later is a waste	Joseph Romm	09 Jan 2008	Gristmill
This post is by ClimateProgress guest blogger Bill Becker, executive director of the Presidential Climate Action Project. ----- A dirty little secret of climate change is that somebody wants us to pay much higher taxes and higher energy bills. But it's not the advocates of climate action. It's the other guys. Make no mistake: The costs of switching to clean energy and an energy-efficient economy are far less than the costs of doing nothing. A study release ...
Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, economy, severe weather (all these topics)

We won't even help our own For mitigation over adaptation: the argument from cynicism	David Roberts	04 Sep 2007	Gristmill
The second anniversary of Katrina has passed, marked by me only with craven silence. There are three Katrina tidbits I wanted to pass along, though, as they are germane to the argument over whether humanity can or should adapt to ongoing climate change. The first is from a year ago. Jim Rusch, who was then acting governor of Idaho and who is likely to take over Larry Craig's recently vacated Senate seat, said this: Here in Idaho, we couldn't understand how peopl ...
Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, climate change mitigation, Louisiana, politics, severe weather (all these topics)

Hurricane Katrina and the myth of global warming adaptation When it comes to climate change, prevention is more important than adaptation	Joseph Romm	29 Aug 2007	Gristmill
G. Gordon Liddy's daughter repeated a standard Denier line in our debate: Humans are very adaptable -- we've adapted to climate changes in the past and will do so in the future. I think Hurricane Katrina gives the lie to that myth. No, I'm not saying humans are not adaptable. Nor am I saying global warming caused Hurricane Katrina, although warming probably did make it more intense. But on the two-year anniversary of Katrina, I'm saying Katrina showed the limitati ...
Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, Louisiana, severe weather (all these topics)

How do we restrain global warming? Will it be adaptation, mitigation ... or neither?	Kit Stolz	11 May 2007	Gristmill
Despite a lot of talk, this nation has done little to restrain global warming, either in terms of mitigating carbon emissions or adapting to the climate changes that will come. Some nations around the world -- wealthy nations such as Australia and the Netherlands -- are beginning to adapt, while poorer nations -- such as Malawi and India -- can't afford to. In a superb piece of reporting last month in The New York Times, four writers reported on "the climate d ...
Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, environmental justice (all these topics)

Journalism, wonkery, advocacy, nuclear power, and the kitchen sink Join me for some navel gazing!	David Roberts	14 Mar 2007	Gristmill
There is sometimes a fine line between opposing something and not supporting it; between believing that something should be advocated against and believing it should not be advocated for; between believing that something is bad and believing that there are several better options. Two examples come to mind. One is adaptation, as opposed to mitigation, in response to climate change. (Much more on that soon.) The other is nuclear power. Readers of this blog probably th ...
Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, climate change mitigation, energy, energy efficiency, nuclear power (all these topics)

Adaptation	David Roberts	29 May 2006	Gristmill
The other issue that's come up in Pielke-Roberts Mild Disagreement '06 is the relative importance of mitigation vs. adaptation, climate-change wise. A couple of issues need to be distinguished here. First, the substance: According to Roger, the "Kyoto Protocol, as is the FCCC under which it was negotiated, is in fact strongly biased against adaptation." It frames money spent on adaptation as money directly drained from mitigation (which it says would make ...
Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, climate change mitigation (all these topics)

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