President Obama's election raised unprecedented expectations among climate advocates--and yet their unconditional devotion allows him to get away with giving little more than lip service to the issue.
The administration's offshore drilling proposal is not a panacea for U.S. energy concerns, but it will help a little.
Any effective climate strategy will have to rely upon a combination of emissions reductions, adaptation, and, if circumstances warrant, some degree of geoengineering.
Samuel Thernstrom believes geoengineering may have an important role to play, both practically and conceptually, in the climate challenge process.
The greatest danger associated with these loan guarantees for nuclear power plants is not environmental but financial.
The choices within the climate change debate are extraordinarily difficult. Imperfect people, not pure science, must decide our course of action.
Climate policy should focus on human welfare, not just reducing global greenhouse gas emissions.
Reading the climate news in recent weeks, one might start to wonder who won the last election.
After years of deadlock over climate policy, Congress appears poised to enact the first federal limits on greenhouse gas emissions this fall.
Energy Secretary Steven Chu made headlines when he proposed "soft" geoengineering by painting roofs and roads white in order to reflect sunlight back into space. That idea might seem absurd to some, but Chu has done the nation a service.
Book Chapter
February 27, 2009
Can international regimes be effective means to restrain carbon emissions?
Can global warming be stopped? Ask a geoengineer.
Al Gore deliberately obscures the critical questions that need to be carefully considered when crafting climate policy.
Geoengineering could prove to be a viable solution to global warming.
Geoengineering could prove to be a viable solution to global warming.
In a recent speech, President Bush set new goals for U.S. climate policy without providing aplan to achieve them.
Will George Bush salvage his legacy on climate change?
Samuel Thernstrom testifies at a congressional hearing on the EPA's response to air quality issues in the aftermath of September 11, 2001.
Al Gore’s extreme proposals on climate change are smart politics--and bad policy.
Is there a viable alternative to the Kyoto Protocol?
Gore himself has done incalculable harm to the cause of combating global warming.
New York Sun
July 8, 2005
This is a classic turtle and the hare story--and America's slow and steady approach is the only way to win this race.
Ripon Forum
March 28, 2005
The death of the environmental movement is being mourned.
While average global temperatures rose slightly during the twentieth century, we do not have sufficient evidence to know definitively whether that rise was man-made or natural.
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