Oral Argument

Episode 21: Kind of a Hellscape

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We talk about the relatively simple problem of global climate change with Brigham Daniels. Starting with EPA’s just-proposed regulations, we discuss the very odd way that U.S. law has confronted the problem. Why has it become a partisan issue and how do we overcome that? Are economic signals enough or must ethics change and tribal alliances break down? How might that happen? Darcy and a special canine guest make brief appearances.

This show’s links:

  • Brigham Daniels’ faculty profile and writing
  • Brigham Daniels, Addressing Global Climate Change in an Age of Political Climate Change
  • EPA, Carbon Pollution Standards
  • EPA, Carbon Power Plan Proposed Rule, including links to the proposed rule and numerous fact sheets concerning the EPA’s proposed rule for existing power plants
  • Vox’s Guide to Obama's New Rules to Cut Carbon Emissions from Power Plants
  • Jonathan Cohn, Obama's New Rules for Coal Plants Are a B.F.D. The Ensuing Political Fight May Be Even Bigger
  • The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, website and wikipedia
  • Explanation of the Kyoto Protocol
  • U.S. Global Change Research Program, 2014 National Climate Assessment
  • USGCPR, Appendix: Climate Science Supplement
  • About the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change or IPCC
  • IPCC Assessments
  • Massachusetts v. EPA, holding (among other things) that EPA has authority under some parts of the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse gas emissions
  • EPA, Section 111(d) Plans mandated after an endangerment finding
  • In re Polar Bear Endangered Species Act Listing, in which the D.C. Circuit upholds U.S. Fish and Wildlife’s listing of the polar bear as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act
  • Justin Gillis and Kenneth Chang, Scientists Warn of Rising Oceans From Polar Melt
  • Ezra Klein, How Politics Makes Us Stupid
  • Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Climate Change Debate on YouTube
  • Letter from Moynihan to Ehrlichman in the Nixon White House warning that rising carbon dioxide levels were “very clearly” a “problem,” potentially destroying New York and Washington
  • Competitive Enterprise Institute, Energy, YouTube video (“They call it pollution. We call it life.”)
  • Kevin Drum, Sorry, "Daily Show": Anti-Vax Nuts Come From Both Sides of the Aisle
  • Jedediah Purdy, Climate Change Needs the Politics of the Impossible
  • Ezra Klein, 7 Reasons America Will Fail on Climate Change

    • Special Guest: Brigham Daniels.

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