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July 26, 2010
Unified World Climate Action? It’s Not in the Cards

Want to paralyze energy policy making? Just call a world conference and try for consensus. Want to maximize public apathy regarding greenhouse gas issues? Just do a few more Copenhagens.   There’s a game that psychologists use to understand how group decisions are made, particularly when strategies to achieve benefits for the group as a whole increase the risk to individual participants. In other words, when do players put the good of the group above their own (individual) good?  

Insights, Climate Change Strategy, Greenhouse gas, IPCC, Climate Change
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July 27, 2009
Climate Change: The Train Has Left the Station.

The legislative journey has begun based on assumptions that will no doubt change with time. There was no other choice. No time to wait and see, particularly if the urgency is as great as the IPCC claims.

Insights, Climate Change Strategy, Federal, Greenhouse gas, IPCC, Climate Change, Policy
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February 19, 2009
Never Cry Wolf
Last summer my wife and I were walking across a grocery store parking lot when we noticed a toddler trying to convince his mother to carry him. “I’m hot, mommy! I’m hot!” To this the young mother replied, ” That’s because the earth is getting hotter, Jimmy. It’s called global warming. You’ll just have to get used to it.” And she made him continue to walk as he howled.  
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January 1, 2009
CCS Around the Globe

Many countries view their coal resources as a critical component in national economic growth and security, notes a white paper produced by EPRI's CoalFleet for Tomorrow group.

In The Know, Greenhouse gas, IPCC, Climate Change, Utility Generation