The climate casino : risk, uncertainty, and economics for a warming world / William Nordhaus.
By: Nordhaus, William D [author.]
.Publisher: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2013Description: xiii, 378 pages : illustrations (black and white).Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780300212648.Subject(s): Climatic changes -- Effect of human beings on | Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects | Climatic changes -- Social aspects | Environmental policyDDC classification: 363.73874 Summary: Climate change is profoundly altering our world in ways that pose major risks to human societies and natural systems. We have entered the Climate Casino and are rolling the global-warming dice, warns economist William Nordhaus. But there is still time to turn around and walk back out of the casino, and in this essential book the author explains how.
Bringing together all the important issues surrounding the climate debate, Nordhaus describes the science, economics, and politics involved—and the steps necessary to reduce the perils of global warming. Using language accessible to any concerned citizen and taking care to present different points of view fairly, he discusses the problem from start to finish: from the beginning, where warming originates in our personal energy use, to the end, where societies employ regulations or taxes or subsidies to slow the emissions of gases responsible for climate change.
Nordhaus offers a new analysis of why earlier policies, such as the Kyoto Protocol, failed to slow carbon dioxide emissions, how new approaches can succeed, and which policy tools will most effectively reduce emissions. In short, he clarifies a defining problem of our times and lays out the next critical steps for slowing the trajectory of global warming. Yale University Press website. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300212648/climate-casino
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| 363.73874 MOR The planet remade : how geoengineering could change the world / | 363.73874 NEW Climate capitalism : | 363.73874 NEW The new climate policies of the European Union : internal legislation and climate diplomacy / | 363.73874 NOR The climate casino : | 363.73874 PAR The Paris Agreement on climate change : analysis and commentary / | 363.73874 PIL Global climate change : a primer / | 363.73874 PLA Planet earth - we have a problem : feedback dynamics and the acceleration of climate change / |
Climate change is profoundly altering our world in ways that pose major risks to human societies and natural systems. We have entered the Climate Casino and are rolling the global-warming dice, warns economist William Nordhaus. But there is still time to turn around and walk back out of the casino, and in this essential book the author explains how.
Bringing together all the important issues surrounding the climate debate, Nordhaus describes the science, economics, and politics involved—and the steps necessary to reduce the perils of global warming. Using language accessible to any concerned citizen and taking care to present different points of view fairly, he discusses the problem from start to finish: from the beginning, where warming originates in our personal energy use, to the end, where societies employ regulations or taxes or subsidies to slow the emissions of gases responsible for climate change.
Nordhaus offers a new analysis of why earlier policies, such as the Kyoto Protocol, failed to slow carbon dioxide emissions, how new approaches can succeed, and which policy tools will most effectively reduce emissions. In short, he clarifies a defining problem of our times and lays out the next critical steps for slowing the trajectory of global warming. Yale University Press website.
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300212648/climate-casino