Articles about Scott Buckley
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Daily Breakthrough: Avatar, Eco-Paranoia, and Technology
UPDATE: Alternet and Buffalo Beast have both corrected their posts about Roger Pielke Jr. and Breakthrough and…
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Collection: Breakthrough Institute Analysis of Congressional Climate Bills
The Breakthrough Institute team works to publish quantitative analysis of Congressional climate and clean energy…
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A CLEAR Look at the Cantwell-Collins Climate Bill, Part 2: Structural Advantages
In Part 1 of our analysis of the new Cantwell-Collins CLEAR Act, we demonstrated how the bill fails to make the…
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Energy and Climate
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A CLEAR Look at the Cantwell-Collins Climate Bill, Part 1: Climate Goals
A new climate bill, introduced Friday by Senators Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and Susan Collins (R-ME), would invest only a…
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The End of "Developing Countries"
In 1992, at the United Nations Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the nations of the world agreed that only developed…
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New "Tri-Partisan" Climate Framework Aims to Clear High Senate Hurdle
Promising "we can and will pass climate change and energy independence legislation this Congress," Senators John Kerry…
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Energy and Climate
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Energy and Climate
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Energy and Climate
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Apocalypse Fatigue: Losing the Public on Climate Change
In Yale e360.org, Ted and Michael make the case that the recent decline in the public's belief in global warming is…
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Energy and Climate
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Energy and Climate
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Energy and Climate
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The Innovation Consensus: $15 Billion for Clean Energy R&D
$15 billion. That is the figure at the heart of a growing consensus of energy innovation experts, all calling for…
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Kerry-Boxer "Clean Energy Jobs" Bill’s Clean Energy Investments a Fraction of Expert Recommendations
The latest draft of the Kerry-Boxer "Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act" would invest less than $10 billion of…
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Kerry-Boxer Climate Bill Allowance Allocation Breakdown
Late Friday night, Senator Barbara Boxer's Environment and Public Works Committee released a new draft of the…
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Kerry-Boxer Carbon Price Will Remain at Price Floor According to First Modeling of Draft Bill
Initial modeling of the Kerry-Boxer climate bill (full text), the Senate sibling of the House-passed…
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National Institutes of Energy Needed to Fill Energy R&D Gap
Friday factoids time: The U.S. biomedical and pharmaceutical industry invests between 10-20 percent of revenues in…
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Blast from the Past: Romm’s Critique of the Waxman-Markey Blueprint
Here is Joseph Romm of ClimateProgress writing about the United States Climate Action Partnership proposal in January…
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Only Technology Policy, Not More Targets and Timetables, Can Save Copenhagen
"Copenhagen climate talks are in trouble," say Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger in their new piece for the…
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Climate Bill Analysis Part 20: Over-Allocation of Pollution Permits Would Result in No Emissions Reductions
The large decline in U.S. emissions in 2008 and 2009 due to the economic recession ensures that if the House-passed…
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National Institutes of Health: A Model for Jumpstarting Energy R&D
Written by Joshua Freed, Senior Policy Advisor for the Clean Energy Initiative at Third Way. Cross posted from The…
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Senator Brown, Leading Energy Think Tanks Push for More Research Investment and New National Institutes
Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and leading DC-based think tank Third Way are the latest political figures to issue a call…
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Jumpstarting a Clean Energy Revolution: A Gathering Global Consensus
Today, the United States faces a nation-defining challenge and opportunity - getting America running on clean energy.…
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Joe Romm’s Strategy to Lose the Clean Energy Race
Originally featured at the Huffington PostCross-posted at Grist.org On Monday, Joe Romm of Climate Progress publicly…
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Joe Romm Ignores Facts in Attacking Breakthrough Institute Op-Ed
On Monday, Joe Romm of Climate Progress publicly attacked the Breakthrough Institute for publishing an op-ed in the San…
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Climate Bill Analysis Part 19: ACES Could Align Economic Interests to Weaken Climate Legislation
This analysis was also covered in an op-ed at AlterNet. New analysis by the Breakthrough Institute concludes that the…
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Analysis of Waxman-Markey ACES Climate Bill: Full Breakthrough Institute Collection
Download this summary as a pdf hereFor Breakthrough Institute's full collection of analysis of Congressional climate…
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Climate Bill Analysis Part 18: Understanding EPA’s Analysis of the ACES Renewable Electricity Standards
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency projects renewable energy sources like wind, solar and biomass will generate…
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Climate Bill Analysis Part 17: ACES Allowance Allocation Update
The allowance allocation in the latest version of the American Clean Energy & Security Act (available here)…
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Climate Bill Analysis Part 16: EPA Projects Fewer Renewables Under Waxman Markey than Business As Usual
The Waxman-Markey climate bill (AKA the American Clean Energy and Security Act) would reduce the amount of renewable…
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Climate Bill Analysis Part 15: EPA Projects Coal Will Expand Under Waxman-Markey
Electricity generation from coal will grow if Waxman-Markey climate legislation becomes law, according to a Los Angeles…
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Climate Bill Analysis Part 14: Waxman-Markey Puts Ratepayers at Risk
According to a new analysis [pdf] by Public Citizen, the Waxman-Markey (W-M) climate legislation would inadequately…
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Climate Bill Analysis, Part 13: EPA Analysis Projects Waxman-Markey Would Not Require Emissions Reductions
[Updated 6/18/09 with graphics that more clearly reflect banking of offsets under EPA's projected offsets scenario.]The…
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Climate Bill Analysis, Part 12: CBO Projects Waxman-Markey Would Cut Cumulative Emissions by Just 2%
[Updated with correction, 6/18/09: Thanks to John Larson at WRI for alerting us to an error in our data. Our data is…
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Climate Bill Analysis, Part 11: New UCS Analysis Finds Waxman-Markey RES Won’t Increase Clean Energy
According to a new, as-yet-unpublished analysis from the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), the combined efficiency…
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Climate Bill Analysis, Part 10: Smart Provisions Could Spur Clean Technology - If They Are Funded
As Breakthrough's analysis of the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES) has revealed, the climate…
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Climate Bill Analysis, Part 9: Southern Alliance for Clean Energy Confirms Breakthrough’s Analysis
With most DC-based environmental organizations at least grudgingly supporting the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy…
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Climate Bill Analysis, Part 8: Waxman-Markey’s Non-Binding Emissions "Cap"
Since we released our initial analysis of the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES), other…
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Climate Bill Analysis, Part 7: Renewable Electricity Standard Severely Weakened
Advocates of the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act (H.R. 2454, or "ACES" for short) argue that the…
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Climate Bill Analysis, Part 6: Strategic Reserve May Allow "Cap" to Rise by 10 Percent
Every climate bill, in the U.S. and abroad, contains provisions limiting how high carbon prices established by the…
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Joe Romm Tries to Shut Down Climate Bill Debate by Attacking Breakthrough Institute
Breakthrough Institute spent the past week analyzing the Waxman-Markey climate bill. We released several objective and…
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Climate Bill Analysis, Part 5: Foreign Offsets Receive 2.5 Times More Money than U.S. Clean Energy
If all foreign offset provisions in the Waxman-Markey climate bill are used, the cap and trade regime would spend…
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Climate Bill Analysis, Part 4: Emissions Cap May Let U.S. Emissions Continue to Rise Through 2030
[Updated 6/18/09 to more clearly explain and depict the potential banking of offsets.]At the heart of the nearly…
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Climate Bill Analysis, Part 3: Key offset limit eliminated, increasing domestic offset use, lowering allowance prices
The original discussion draft of Waxman-Markey included a key provision that would have required domestic and…
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Climate Bill Analysis, Part 2: Clean Energy R&D Investment May Be 30 Times Smaller than President Obama's Budget
[Updated 5/22/09: the ACES bill now includes a $10/ton price floor for auctioned pollution permits. The analysis below…
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Climate Bill Analysis, Part 1: Waxman-Markey Gives Nearly 5 Times More to Polluters than Clean Energy
The landmark Waxman-Markey 2009 American Clean Energy and Security Act was introduced in the House this afternoon (May…
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Cap and Trade Worked for Acid Rain, Why Not for Climate Change?
One of the most often-repeated assumptions in the climate policy debate is that cap and trade, the preferred mechanism…
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The Green Bubble, Why Environmentalism Keeps Imploding
In this week's New Republic, Ted and Michael argue that the green bubble has popped -- and that's a good thing.…
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How Fast Can a Big Economy Decarbonize?
Cross posted from Prometheus: The Science Policy Blog Remarkably, with all of the talk of targets and timetables for…
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Is Joe Romm an Energy Challenge Denier?
Is it just me, or is ClimateProgress blogger Joseph Romm working hard to marginalize himself as he reinforces an…
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Did the Senate Just Preemptively Kill Cap and Trade?
Cross posted from Prometheus: The Science Policy Blog The ability of Congressional legislation on cap and trade to…
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An Open Letter to Joseph Romm
Joe,Your strategy, as usual, is to shoot the messenger rather than confront the facts. This is what you did when you…
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Carl Pope Breaks With Traditional Climate Agenda
Carl Pope, Executive Director of the Sierra Club, said on a "Politics of Green" panel discussion this week in Denver…
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Scrap Kyoto
Kyoto is dead - and that's a good thing. In its place, we need massive global investment in new clean energy…
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Gandhi the Modernist?
A few days ago, Michael Shellenberger blogged about how some of India's most prominent thinkers, like the leader of the…
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Ozone Hole No Model for Climate
Andy Revkin blogs that Nobel laureate Dr. Steven Chu says that climate change is not like dealing with the ozone hole.…
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Energy and Climate
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Joe Romm’s Fuzzy Math
[UPDATE: Joe Romm replies in the comments: "Roger -- Thanks for catching my C vs CO2 error.those are very hard to…
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What is Joe Romm Complaining About?
Joe Romm has continued his hysterical, content-free attacks on me and my colleagues for suggesting a view not 100% the…
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Maybe Horses Will Fly - Developing Countries and Global Warming
Last week, the New York Times reporter Andrew Revkin blogged about the World Bank's decision to finance a major new…
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The Debate Gets Civil: Romm Apologizes For Unfair Attacks
A controversial commentaryin last week's Nature -- arguing that the IPCC greatly underestimated the emissions…
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Romm vs. Expert Consensus on Energy Technology
The Center for American Progress's Joe Romm claims we don't need technology breakthroughs -- defined as disruptive or…
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The Green Politics of Personal Destruction: Deconstructing Joe Romm
Last week, Roger Pielke Jr. and two co-authors published a landmark commentary in the science journal Nature suggesting…
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Joe Romm’s Dissembling
Joe Romm is someone who I've never met, but he has taken on a somewhat odd obsession with attacking me over the…
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Misinformation from Grist
The bloggers at Grist have taken strong issue with the Commentary in Nature that I co-authored with Tom Wigley and…
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Joe Romm's Challenge
Joe Romm, a former political appointee [Update: Mr. Romm has asked that a fuller description of him be provided here,…
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Al Gore Misrepresents the Emissions Challenge
AFP reported over the weekend that Al Gore wants to see more discussion of the challenge of reducing emissions of…
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Can Conservatism Rule?
Anti-government conservatism is ascendent. The Tea Party is the most significant social movement since the anti-war…
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A Price Tag on Mother Nature? A Cautionary Tale
The early 1980s were a period of crisis and change for the environmental movement. President Ronald Reagan had swept to…
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Why Andrew Sullivan is Wrong About Obama
By Michael Burnam-FinkCross-posted from We Alone on Earth. Andrew Sullivan has been blowing up the internet with an…
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Thoughts on the Future of the Creative Class
In 2002, it was easy to imagine that America's bright future could be realized in the minds of the so-called creative…
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Rethinking College Majors
I made a joke to my friend the other day that the lesson to take away from articles like this recent Economix blog…
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The Future of Pop Music and Youth Culture
Concerns that the US economy can no longer innovate seem to be trickling into the cultural realm. According to Grant…
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What It Means to Forget on Facebook
This post has been cross-posted from my blog, Mneumozine, where I write about memory. It's odd that Facebook makes…
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Don't Cut Investment, Cut the Deficit
According to MIT economist Daron Acemoglu, the debt ceiling is just a distraction. The real problem with the American…
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Food and Agriculture
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Food and Agriculture
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