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I wrote last Friday about the China/India hole in the American climate strategy: America appears to lack a high-probability strategy for how to get China, India, and Russia to agree to self-impose a significant positive carbon price. The Administration and its Congressional allies are trying to impose a significant carbon price in the U.S. through [...]

(Editorial note:  I was doing so well moving to shorter posts.  I fail miserably in achieving that goal here.  I went the comprehensive route instead.  I promise to return to shorter posts in the future.  Buckle up – this is a long ride.  I hope you find it’s worth it.) (Update:  There’s an important correction [...]

I watched the President’s Tuesday evening press conference twice, and have been studying the transcript as well.  I believe the best way to understand a policymaker is simple:  read, watch, or listen to the words that he or she says.  Getting a policymaker’s views through a news filter distorts and loses content.  In this blog, [...]

The Senate is now debating a climate change bill, typically referred to as the “Lieberman-Warner” bill, referring to Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Sen. John Warner (R-VA).  Technically, we think they’ll end up considering a slightly different version of that bill, offered by the Chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Sen. Barbara [...]

Here is the 38-page “Summit Declaration” from the G8 summit, released earlier today.  The summit and the document cover many important economic topics.  I’m going to focus on the climate change section, which is receiving a lot of press coverage. We are very pleased.  Let me start with some quotes from the President while he [...]

The President spoke today to the U.S. Global Leadership Council about America’s international development agenda.  You can find his remarks here.  His wide-ranging speech covered trade, debt relief, education, AIDS, and malaria.  There was a lot to highlight, but I’m going to focus first on his new climate change proposal. Here’s the key quote: In [...]