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Climate Change Adaptation Lessons from Freezing Texas

Environmental and Urban Economics

Due to climate change past histograms of winter and summer weather are likely to understate the likelihood of extreme weather days going forward. If climate change risk is a "known unknown", then a regulator with a taste for Robustness will sign up more customers for CPP. Read Frank Wolak's 2011 paper.

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Our 2012 Report Predicted the Future of Electric Vehicles in 2025: How Off Were We?

Legal Planet

The report cited 2011-12 EV sales as reason for optimism on achieving mass adoption by 2025: Early results from the introduction of new electric vehicles to the U.S. Theres still a ways to go to get EVs to 100% of new vehicles sales (the new goal is to achieve that percentage by 2035 in the state).

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Wildfire Threat to Texas Nuclear Weapons Facility Highlights Intersecting Risks

Union of Concerned Scientists

What role is climate change playing? As climate change increases the frequency or intensity of extreme events such as wildfires, heat waves, and heavy downpours, there is an increase in the potential for different types of risks to coincide or for a climate-related event to trigger a cascade of non-climatic consequences.

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A Tale of Two Hockey Sticks

Real Climate

The Hockey Stick became an icon in the case for human-caused climate change, and I found myself at the center of the contentious climate debate (I’ve described my experiences in “ The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars ”). Featured two decades later now in the AR6 SPM is a longer Hockey Stick with an even sharper blade.

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Tornadoes and More: What Spring Can Bring to the Power Grid 

Union of Concerned Scientists

The rail infrastructure to transport coal from the Powder River Basin in Montana and Wyoming–the country’s primary coal source –was proven to be vulnerable to extreme floods in the spring of 2011 , and even more extreme floods in the spring of 2019. The link to climate change is clearer, however, with floods.

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5 Powerful Facts for Global Wind Day

Union of Concerned Scientists

In 2021, 9 percent of US electricity came from those graceful kinetic sculptures, up from less than 3 percent in 2011. Globally, too, wind stands to be a leader in what’s to come for fighting climate change. Even more important, though, wind is an impressive piece of our electricity supply. And a lot more big-ness is coming.

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Much ado about acceleration

Real Climate

There has been a lot of commentary about perceived disagreements among climate scientists about whether climate change is, or will soon, accelerate. Li, "Global warming in the pipeline", Oxford Open Climate Change , vol. As with most punditry, there is less here than it might seem. 24 from Hansen et al (2023).