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What's New:
August 22, 2010: In "Disaster at the Top of the World," an op-ed appearing in The New York Times filed from the icebreaker Louis S. St-Laurent in the Arctic, I argue that only a climate crisis will generate real movement on climate policy and that we need to develop plans now to exploit the opportunity provided by this crisis when it occurs. To read the article, click here.
On May 5, 2010, I had the honour of giving the Manion Lecture for the Canada School of Public Service, in Ottawa, Canada. To read the revised text of the lecture, titled "Complexity Science and Public Policy," click here.
On December 7, 2009, in "Responding to the Skeptics," published in the Toronto Globe and Mail, Andrew Weaver of the University of Victoria and I offer short refutations of four arguments commonly used to raise doubts about the scientific consensus on climate change. To read the article, click here.
On August 9, 2009, an article titled "The Enticements of Green Carrots" was published in the Toronto Globe and Mail, I describe a scheme for rewarding consumers for green behavior, modeled on an airline's frequent flyer points. To read the article, click here.
On June 8, 2009, I gave a speech to a conference in Essen, Germany on "The Great Transformation: Climate Change as Cultural Change," in which he identified the cognitive, economic, political, and normative components of the coming cultural transformation arising from climate change. To read the speech, click here. To hear a podcasts of the speech, click here for part one and part two.
From the Archives:
The following four articles explain the origins of the current economic crisis:
"Unbounded uncertainty #1," Toronto Globe and Mail, August 14, 2007.
"From Risk to Uncertainty," Toronto Globe and Mail, March 19, 2008.
"Unbounded uncertainty #2," Toronto Globe and Mail, September 26, 2008.
"The Stag Hunt: Deflation as a Collective Action Problem," Toronto Globe and Mail, November 26, 2008.
Things I'm Reading:
In a recent Brookings conference paper, economist James Hamilton (UCSD) argues that the oil price shock of 2007-08 contributed directly to the onset of the US recession. "The experience of 2007-08 should thus be added to the list of recessions to which oil prices appear to have made a material contribution."
August 22, 2010: In "Disaster at the Top of the World," an op-ed appearing in The New York Times filed from the icebreaker Louis S. St-Laurent in the Arctic, I argue that only a climate crisis will generate real movement on climate policy and that we need to develop plans now to exploit the opportunity provided by this crisis when it occurs. To read the article, click here.
On May 5, 2010, I had the honour of giving the Manion Lecture for the Canada School of Public Service, in Ottawa, Canada. To read the revised text of the lecture, titled "Complexity Science and Public Policy," click here.
On December 7, 2009, in "Responding to the Skeptics," published in the Toronto Globe and Mail, Andrew Weaver of the University of Victoria and I offer short refutations of four arguments commonly used to raise doubts about the scientific consensus on climate change. To read the article, click here.
On August 9, 2009, an article titled "The Enticements of Green Carrots" was published in the Toronto Globe and Mail, I describe a scheme for rewarding consumers for green behavior, modeled on an airline's frequent flyer points. To read the article, click here.
On June 8, 2009, I gave a speech to a conference in Essen, Germany on "The Great Transformation: Climate Change as Cultural Change," in which he identified the cognitive, economic, political, and normative components of the coming cultural transformation arising from climate change. To read the speech, click here.
To hear a podcasts of the speech, click here for part one and part two.
From the Archives:
The following four articles explain the origins of the current economic crisis:
"Unbounded uncertainty #1," Toronto Globe and Mail, August 14, 2007.
"From Risk to Uncertainty," Toronto Globe and Mail, March 19, 2008.
"Unbounded uncertainty #2," Toronto Globe and Mail, September 26, 2008.
"The Stag Hunt: Deflation as a Collective Action Problem," Toronto Globe and Mail, November 26, 2008.
Things I'm Reading:
In a recent Brookings conference paper,
economist James Hamilton (UCSD) argues that the oil price shock of 2007-08 contributed directly to the onset of the US recession. "The experience of 2007-08 should thus be added to the list of recessions to which oil prices appear to have made a material contribution."