brad plumer
bradplumer
No idea if this is right or not (predictions are hard, idk), but it does seem to me that thinking about solar geoengineering as a break-glass-in-case-of-emergency thing, where the world
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Hmm, the latest review of studies on corn ethanol concludes that its carbon intensity is about 40% lower than that of gasoline. If true, then ethanol's obviously not a carbon
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If this actually happened, it'd be a major jolt to the EV market. The federal government owns about 645,000 vehicles (the Postal Service alone owns ~225,000). For comparison, about 1.6
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Biden's new executive order on climate/environment has just been posted. Establishes an interagency group on the social cost of carbon, tells EPA to consider new methane regulations on existing oil/gas
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What were the big energy and climate surprises of the Trump era? Four years ago, I described the most plausible arc for US climate policy under Trump (it was a
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Can America get to net zero emissions by 2050, as Biden has pledged? A big new study from @JesseJenkins and his Princeton colleagues goes into exhaustive detail on what it
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