Kind of a Hellscape
Episode 21 · June 6th, 2014 · 1 hr 22 mins
About this Episode
We talk about the relatively simple problem of global climate change with Brigham Daniels. Starting with EPA’s just-proposed regulations, we discuss the very odd way that U.S. law has confronted the problem. Why has it become a partisan issue and how do we overcome that? Are economic signals enough or must ethics change and tribal alliances break down? How might that happen? Darcy and a special canine guest make brief appearances.
This show’s links:
- Brigham Daniels’ faculty profile and writing
- Brigham Daniels, Addressing Global Climate Change in an Age of Political Climate Change
- EPA, Carbon Pollution Standards
- EPA, Carbon Power Plan Proposed Rule, including links to the proposed rule and numerous fact sheets concerning the EPA’s proposed rule for existing power plants
- Vox’s Guide to Obama's New Rules to Cut Carbon Emissions from Power Plants
- Jonathan Cohn, Obama's New Rules for Coal Plants Are a B.F.D. The Ensuing Political Fight May Be Even Bigger
- The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, website and wikipedia
- Explanation of the Kyoto Protocol
- U.S. Global Change Research Program, 2014 National Climate Assessment
- USGCPR, Appendix: Climate Science Supplement
- About the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change or IPCC
- IPCC Assessments
- Massachusetts v. EPA, holding (among other things) that EPA has authority under some parts of the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse gas emissions
- EPA, Section 111(d) Plans mandated after an endangerment finding
- In re Polar Bear Endangered Species Act Listing, in which the D.C. Circuit upholds U.S. Fish and Wildlife’s listing of the polar bear as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act
- Justin Gillis and Kenneth Chang, Scientists Warn of Rising Oceans From Polar Melt
- Ezra Klein, How Politics Makes Us Stupid
- Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Climate Change Debate on YouTube
- Letter from Moynihan to Ehrlichman in the Nixon White House warning that rising carbon dioxide levels were “very clearly” a “problem,” potentially destroying New York and Washington
- Competitive Enterprise Institute, Energy, YouTube video (“They call it pollution. We call it life.”)
- Kevin Drum, Sorry, "Daily Show": Anti-Vax Nuts Come From Both Sides of the Aisle
- Jedediah Purdy, Climate Change Needs the Politics of the Impossible
- Ezra Klein, 7 Reasons America Will Fail on Climate Change