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Thomas Friedman is good. His book "flat earth" is a really excellent read. This column gets to the point. Never a truer word.... We have created a system for growth that depended on our building more and more stores to sell more and more stuff made in more and more factories in China, powered ...
Environment
Climate Change
China
The Economist covers the inevitable failure of Copenhagen in a well written article. One could also be believe that the US government is deliberately placing articles to lower expectations. The cartoon on page 10 of the economist represents my view perfectly. Let's agree to agree [Economist] ...
Environment
China
Climate Change
Nothing is safe online. Whilst the story that hundreds of emails have been stolen and put online via a Russin mirror is no surpise it is a shock that there are academic emails from a UK University - in this case East Anglia. Whilst not likely to represent proof of a widescale conspiracy I am ...
Environment
Climate Change
This is the question raised in a recent World Bank Working paper. The answer has to be "yes" without reading the paper. The question is the magnitude. The numbers from the abstract to not strike me as too far off for China and India. You can bet that the Chinese and Indian government's have ...
Environment
China
India
A new paper by Fred Curtis in Ecological Economics introduces us to the term "Peak Globalisation". Always one who enjoys a new movement peak globalisation is right up my street. I am not sure I believe this story but I expect I will need to read the paper to form a complete view. "Peak ...
Environment
Oil Drilling
From the inbox: To demonstrate that "Globalisation and the Environment" is "down with the kids" here is a rap about climate change and Copenhagen. It is vaguely amusing actually and certainly worth 5 minutes of ones short life. .
Environment
Climate Change
From the inbox: A bit about the project: “On Thinner Ice”: A new photography project provides undeniable proof of melting glaciers on the roof of the world. Global warming is melting 18,000 Himalayan glaciers, the largest concentration of glaciers outside the polar ice sheets. If the present ...
Environment
Climate Change
Peak Oil is a subject that is always fun to read about. Personally I am sceptical and have a belief that countries in the middle east are deliberately UNDERestimating the level of reserves to keep the price high. Now the Guardian reports that reserves may actually be lower that we think the news ...
Environment
Oil Drilling
Always a believer that a picture is worth a thousand words some of these "piles of rubbish" pictures show clearly tell us something about capitalism and society. Exactly what is tells us is something to think about - answers welcome. Object Graveyards: The Afterlife of Everyday Things ...
Environment
Climate change is not always about absolute increases in temperature. An important element is the volatility in climate. This can do more damage that a simple increase. It is good to see this issue being addressed in a recent World Bank working paper looking at Tanzania. My instinct is to ...
Environment
Climate Change
Tanzania
Must view pictures. Warning - these are not for the faint hearted. Amazing Pictures, Pollution in China [China Hush] .
Environment
China
Followers of this blog will have known I have long predicted no deal in Copenhagen. This was hardly a left field prediction - it was simply never going to happen. The gulf between developed and developing countries is simply too large and Obama already has enough on his plate. Even Obama running ...
Environment
Barack Obama
Denmark
Nicole Andréa Mathys and Jean-Marie Grether have a series of interesting papers using concepts from physics to look at the "centre" of different variables. CO2 is the new target and not surprisingly the trend is a dramatic shift east. Some great pictures and interesting reading. This is a good ...
Environment
CO2
An interesting (yet strangely depressing) prediction of the future of economics research from Marginal Revolution I am sure there is a silver lining somewhere but I can't quite pin it down yet. Matthew Kahn does a good follow up HERE . Two factors shaping the economics profession today ...
Environment
The Institute for Policy Integrity recently released results on their survey of economists on climate change. I was invited on the back on a 2005 JEEM article I think. I originally wrote a long post explaining why I would not participate because of what I perceived to be a set of fundamentally ...
Environment
Climate Change
Another large paper to read. This article is overdue and is a must read (if I ever get time). Here are the conclusions. I tend to agree with much of what is written here. The Place of Nature in Economic Development [PDF] In this paper I have reviewed what seems to me to be the most salient ...
Environment
After a recent trip to China and crossing some very large rivers on route it is hard to imagine the potential problems that melting glaciers are storing up. The Tibetan Plateau problems include flooding,water shortages and desertification. More economics research is needed in this area. This ...
Environment
China
Water Conservation
Climate Change
Apologies for the lack of posts - I have been at the heart of the globalisation and environment debate spending over a week in 3 of China's largest cities - Beijing, Tianjin and Wuhan. The sheer scale of these cities is something to behold. I could not blog however as this blog is still ...
Environment
Climate Change
A picture is worth a thousand words - these are impressively big holes. Is there room for more holes this size elsewhere - sure there is. The earth is a big place. The scale can only really be appreciated in the shots that include tiny houses and trucks. 10 Most Incredible Earth Scars ...
