Posted May 19, 2013 by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
On Friday I had the honor of being the commencement speaker for Berkeley’s Energy and Resources Group, where I obtained my Ph.D. 26 years ago. Here is a lightly edited version of my speech (some inside jokes removed). Thank you...continued→
Posted May 14, 2013 by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
With all the debate on the federal budget in Congress, climate change rarely gets mentioned as a deficit driver. Yet dealing with climate disruption was one of the largest non-defense discretionary budget items in 2012. Indeed, as NRDC shows in...continued→
Posted April 25, 2013 by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
This blog was written by Andy Stevenson, NRDC Finance Advisor and Dan Lashof. It first appeared in LiveScience's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Texas’ reputation as a small government, big steaks, business friendly state is beginning to wither as it continues...continued→
Posted April 12, 2013 by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
The Economist is a well-regarded magazine. Its writers aren’t loony science deniers, like those on the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page, or the broadcasters on Fox News. Generally speaking, their climate coverage wins high marks. But an article the magazine...continued→
Posted April 9, 2013 by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
A version of this blog first appeared in Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. The Energy Information Administration (EIA), the official U.S. energy data keeper, recently released full-year 2012 data. They show a 3.7 percent reduction in carbon dioxide...continued→
Posted March 28, 2013 by Dan Lashof in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment, Living Sustainably, Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming, U.S. Law and Policy
This blog was written by Dan Lashof and Andy Stevenson, finance advisor for NRDC, and first appeared in Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. There are many, many compelling and urgent reasons to take decisive action to combat climate change....continued→
Posted March 27, 2013 by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) has released a six-point plan in a letter to President Obama responding to his request for input on his second term climate strategy. PCAST laid out a clear-eyed vision of...continued→
Posted March 21, 2013 by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
There’s something startling about ExxonMobil’s 2013 Outlook for Energy: A View to 2040 report. Could it be that the company that’s spent many millions of dollars and important years promoting denial of global warming now issues a report for investors...continued→
Posted March 7, 2013 by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
If you want to know the bottom line on how the effort to curtail dangerous climate change is going, check what’s happening to the atmosphere’s concentration of heat-trapping carbon dioxide (CO2). That’s just what the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...continued→
Posted March 1, 2013 by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
This post has been revised (March 4th) to reflect comments by Charlie Komanoff from carbontax.org regarding the use of state sales tax rates as opposed to state and local tax rates. The post was co-written with NRDC Finance Advisor Andy...continued→
Posted February 22, 2013 by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
To start making things better, you have to stop making them worse. That’s the principle we demonstrators articulated at Sunday’s Forward on Climate rally in Washington DC, as our feet stomped against the cold. I was there wearing two hats....continued→
Posted February 13, 2013 by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
“Tonight, there is much progress to report,” the President said last night at the beginning of his State of the Union address. When it comes to combating climate change, there was indeed. To begin with, President Obama noted that …over...continued→
Posted February 8, 2013 by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
Last July I published an issue brief called Closer than You Think, pointing out that U.S. carbon dioxide emissions in 2011 were lower than many people realized—about 9 percent below their 2005/2007 peak—putting President Obama’s 17-percent-below -2005-levels reduction target within...continued→
Posted February 2, 2013 by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
Last week, World Bank President Dr. Jim Yong Kim came out with a powerful, laudable statement supporting urgent action on climate change. “If there is no action soon,” he wrote in the Washington Post, in a January 24th op-ed, “the...continued→
Posted January 22, 2013 by Dan Lashof in Solving Global Warming
President Obama promised that “[w]e will respond to the threat of climate change,” in what the New York Times called the most prominent policy vow of his second inaugural address. If he delivers on that promise—and he has the authority...continued→
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