Climate change: Al Gore gets inconvenient again

Some Inconvenient Truths About Climate Change Policy

Economists often point to Pigouvian taxes and cap & trade programs as the preferred policy tools for reducing greenhouse gases. In contrast, policymakers have relied on measures that either explicitly or implicitly subsidize low carbon fuels. We simulate a transportation-sector cap & trade program (CAT) and three policies currently in use: ethanol subsidies, a renewable fuel standard (RFS), and...

The Al Gore Effect: An Inconvenient Truth and Voluntary Carbon Offsets∗

This paper examines the relationship between climate change awareness and household behavior by testing whether Al Gore’s documentary An Inconvenient Truth caused an increase in the purchase of voluntary carbon offsets. I find that in the two months following the film’s release, zip codes within a 10-mile radius of a zip code where the film was shown experienced a 50 percent relative increase i...

The Perception Factor: Climate Change Gets Personal

Climate change and human health: recognising the really inconvenient truth.

he United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copen-hagen (7–18 December) will soon be behind us. Climate change, however, continues to progress more rapidly and disruptively than climate scientists foreshadowed only 5 years ago. Recent peer-reviewed reports of climate change processes and impacts show, among other effects, an increased rate of greenhouse gas accumulation in the lower atmosphe...

Regarding Anderegg et al. and climate change credibility.