The principal drivers for climate policy remain: rising temperatures and seas, government deficits, and carbon pricing by our trading partners. Those are strategic drivers and are independent of today's politicians.

Climate policy substance still matters. So, today, we offer that a carbon tax is better fiscal policy than increased corporate taxes. Good fiscal policy can also be good climate policy. amsresearch.org/report/macroec…

Do Senate Democrats have 50 votes for a reconciliation bill that doesn't address climate change?

Talking to friends about record temperatures and climate change can be challenging. Here's a great article in the MIT Technology Review to help those conversations: technologyreview.com/2022/07/21/105…

The technical, political, and moral issues of geo-engineering... I'm not sure where to begin, but it has begun: nytimes.com/2022/08/28/wor…

"The one change I would make to the global economy to better prepare us for the future would be to implement a global carbon pricing mechanism." -- Christian Keller, Head, Economics Research, Barclays weforum.org/agenda/2022/09…

The national debt went over $31 trillion today. Each taxpayer's share is over $246,000. Let that sink in. How are we going to pay for that -- or, more realistically, how are our kids going to pay that?

These economists are starting to be really opinionated about climate: "The world must cut greenhouse gas emissions...[which will] impose short-term economic costs, though these are dwarfed by the innumerable long-term benefits of slowing climate change." imf.org/en/Blogs/Artic…

This NOPEC/anti-OPEC saber rattling is more troubling in a post-Trump/GOP protectionist era. It's dangerous policy, and the normal guardrails that have prevented this sort of thing in the past may be weak.

Pondering something and open to ideas that wouldn't otherwise occur to me. What are the climate policy lessons from the recent UK political and fiscal gyrations?

This Thanksgiving, I am grateful Sen. Lisa Murkowski won. The Senate is better for it.

Washington, we have a problem. crfb.org/blogs/what-wou…

If you follow me, please take a few minutes to read this. crfb.org/papers/analysi…

I am curious about about reactions to this idea: realclearenergy.org/articles/2023/…

Regarding AI, Sundar Pichai says climate activism causes him to think, "the collective will will come over time to tackle all of this responsibly." Well... I don't find that reassuring at all. nytimes.com/2023/03/31/tec…

The US national debt just went over $32T. That's $95k/citizen and $248k/taxpayer. I really don't know what else to say.

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This is about when the Senate passes the bipartisan spending deal and adjourns for the year.

Remember the Base Realignment and Closure Commission? What about doing one of those for permitting reform? Got a better idea? realclearenergy.org/articles/2025/…

We Can’t Stop Climate Change, So We Need to Prepare for It by Alex Flint and Kalee Kreider wsj.com/opinion/we-can…