scholarly journals Philosophy’s other climate problem☆

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Brownstein ◽  
Neil Levy
Keyword(s):  
Climate Problem

scholarly journals The Economics of the Climate

2017 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 1046-1063 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Heal
Keyword(s):  
Complex Systems ◽  
Integrated Assessment ◽  
Discount Rates ◽  
Risk And Uncertainty ◽  
Policy Choices ◽  
Integrated Assessment Models ◽  
Qualitative Understanding ◽  
Climate Problem

I review the economic characteristics of the climate problem, focusing on the choice of discount rates in the presence of a stock externality, risk and uncertainty/ambiguity, and the role of integrated assessment models (IAMs) in analyzing policy choices. I suggest that IAMs can play a role in providing qualitative understanding of how complex systems behave, but are not accurate enough to provide quantitative insights. Arguments in favor of action on climate issues have to be based on aversion to risk and ambiguity and the need to avoid a small but positive risk of a disastrous outcome. ( JEL D61, H43, Q48, Q54, Q58)

scholarly journals Alternative Energy: Is a Solution to the Climate Problem?

10.5772/23142 ◽  
2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesus A. Valero Matas ◽  
Juan Romay
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Energy ◽  
Climate Problem

Nuclear waste disposal: A climate problem? ? An editorial

1987 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric J. Barron
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Waste ◽  
Waste Disposal ◽  
Nuclear Waste Disposal ◽  
Climate Problem

Strategies for Averting A CO2/Climate Problem

1984 ◽  
pp. 198-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wilfrid Bach
Keyword(s):  
Climate Problem

An introduction to the climate problem

2012 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Andrew Dessler
Keyword(s):  
Climate Problem

Lazy thinking, lazy giving? Examining the effects of Norwegian aid on forests in developing countries

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristine Hermanrud ◽  
Indra de Soysa
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Greenhouse Gases ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Instrumental Variable ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Forest Degradation ◽  
Bilateral Aid ◽  
Estimation Techniques ◽  
Step Selection ◽  
Climate Problem

The Norwegian government enthusiastically supports the protection of forests, which are important CO2 sinks. Given all the difficulty surrounding the reduction of greenhouse gases, funding the protection of forests is a sound proposition. Up to the present time, how well has Norwegian aid to forests and Norwegian bilateral aid affected the health of forests? Using World Bank data on forest degradation and change in forest area for roughly 130 developing countries from 1999 to 2013, we find that higher levels of Norwegian forest aid among recipient countries has generally had no effect on reducing degradation, while total Norwegian bilateral aid is associated with increased degradation, results that might very well be causal because they are robust to estimations using instrumental variable techniques. Two-step selection models show that forest aid also increases forest degradation, result that are quite unflattering of Norwegian aid. These results are robust to several alternative specifications of our models and to alternative estimation techniques including country fixed effects. Two clear lessons emerge from our findings; firstly, that Norwegian aid does not seem to be coordinated for addressing the problem of forest degradation; and secondly, aid as a means to solve the climate problem likely faces steep obstacles if even a non-strategic, aid-giving country, such as Norway, is capable of more harm than good.

The Probable Solution of the Climate Problem in Geology

1924 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 152-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wilhelm Ramsay
Keyword(s):  
Ice Ages ◽  
Geological Record ◽  
Climate Problem

In the following pages I have endeavoured to give an interpretation, not only of the appearance of ice ages, but also of the greater changes of climate registered in the geological record. In view of the importance ascribed in this discussion to relief, I have named the theory the relief hypothesis.

Solving the Climate Problem: Technologies Available to Curb CO2Emissions

2004 ◽  
Vol 46 (10) ◽  
pp. 8-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Socolow ◽  
Roberta Hotinski ◽  
Jeffery B. Greenblatt ◽  
Stephen Pacala
Keyword(s):  
Climate Problem
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