tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524070301101240472.post6707897519769881792..comments2023-09-28T08:13:11.489-07:00Comments on Only In It For The Gold: Trust in ModelsMichael Tobishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08229460438349093944noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524070301101240472.post-68695994824139106782010-05-10T22:15:58.793-07:002010-05-10T22:15:58.793-07:00GL, MA, watch.GL, MA, <a href="http://www.gapminder.org/" rel="nofollow">watch</a>.Michael Tobishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08229460438349093944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524070301101240472.post-24657142604519218492010-05-10T21:01:39.471-07:002010-05-10T21:01:39.471-07:00Gravityloss:
"How can you reduce emissions i...Gravityloss:<br /><br />"How can you reduce emissions in a developing country which doesn't have coal or oil?<br />Fishy!"<br /><br />Are you one of the deniers who think climate scientists claim it's all down to fossil-fuel burning? The principal energy source in many third-world societies is charcoal. Deforestation ensues. The net result is a reduced rate of CO2 sequestration in biomass.<br /><br />Did you really not know this?Mal Adaptedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06123525780458234978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524070301101240472.post-63422612287403290922010-05-07T10:20:14.268-07:002010-05-07T10:20:14.268-07:00How can you reduce emissions in a developing count...How can you reduce emissions in a developing country which doesn't have coal or oil?<br />Fishy!Gravitylosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06169853327061102628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524070301101240472.post-38191233983723167022010-05-06T07:13:16.117-07:002010-05-06T07:13:16.117-07:00FYI for people in the Boston area:
Hear Frank Ac...FYI for people in the Boston area:<br /><br /><br />Hear Frank Ackerman speak about CRED at an SEI-U.S. Brown Bag Lunch Lecture next Wednesday, May 12, from 12 to 1:30pm at Tufts University, in the Cabot Intercultural Center, Room 70d, 170 Packard Ave., Somerville, MA. For more information, contact Kim Shaknis at kshaknis@sei-us.org.<br /><br /><br />SEI-U.S. Working Paper<br />CRED: A New Model of Climate<br />and Development<br /><br /><br />CRED: A New Model of Climate and Development Climate change is a global problem, and addressing it inevitably raises questions about development and equity.<br />Our new model, Climate and Regional Economics of Development (CRED), uses data about different regions' economies and vulnerability to climate change to predict the consequences of various climate and development choices. It finds more equitable scenarios have better climate outcomes.paulinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06306644262132783104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524070301101240472.post-58234126310952119852010-05-06T01:09:08.771-07:002010-05-06T01:09:08.771-07:00Sounds a bit like a NZ economist that's been s...Sounds a bit like a NZ economist that's been spamming my blog because he doesn't like my argument in that there are numerous other environmental issues and not just AGW that get us to the same point regarding action and change.<br />He's also mentioned (on his space) that green policies will collapse the western while offering no solution to that fact that we are almost entirely reliant on non-renewable energy resources and continuing to breed like rabbits.. It is terrible that economics and ecology find it so difficult to discuss issues that effect them both.Mothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15894597496694539200noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524070301101240472.post-753882257088838012010-05-05T11:46:57.698-07:002010-05-05T11:46:57.698-07:00Again, I'm just skimming their paper, but it a...Again, I'm just skimming their paper, but it appears that the DICE and PAGE models basically assume that, yes, there are <i>intertemporal</i> equity issues - i.e. it is generally better to focus on this generation than future generations... because this generation is (presumably) poorer than future generations! And this, of course, gets reflected in the discount rate...<br /><br />But in terms of present-day contemporaneous <i>interpersonal</i> equity, the current allocation seems to be presumed optimal by assumption...<br /><br />So it seems more a case that the "correction" for "the problem" isn't so much an after-the-fact fix, but rather basic - and arbitrary - assumptions that essentially preclude anything but the status quo equity from being considered in solution sets...<br /><br />I see that Paul Baer's work is in the references, so maybe Paul has some other insights. I'll try to read the paper further tonight...tidalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08979480547719289608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524070301101240472.post-37283417343648352762010-05-05T11:22:07.232-07:002010-05-05T11:22:07.232-07:00quoting "rustneversleeps"'s email
&...quoting "rustneversleeps"'s email<br /><br />> Because the impact of every dollar is bigger in a lower-income economy, shifting capital from rich to poor regions has the best payoff.<br /><br />Global emissions or not, this is already happening. Capital is desperately trying to enter the developing world. China and India are taking *great* pains to keep a lot of it out, to keep their economies from overheating (no pun intended).<br /><br />The nice thing about valid economic models is that it is impossible to keep the smart investors from re-creating them.manuel moe ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04878149837118503541noreply@blogger.com