Don't have time for a more substantive post right now, but I want to keep the lights on here so I thought I'd pass along this intere...

This NY Times  article  is over a month old now, but I'm highlighting it anyway because it is illustrative of trade politics dynamics th...

The Journal of Peace Research has a special issue on the security implications of climate change. The issue can be found here , and is open...

In a classic example of a tragedy of the commons, a field is used by several farmers to graze their cattle. None of the farmers have the rig...

This has been brewing : "The trade war between China and Europe will not break out over manufacturing industry, customs duties, dumping...

Tyler Cowen notes the decline in "green" brands. He suggests that the trend is over. But I think it's just another data point...

This doesn't strike me as a very large problem, but it is interesting: The European Commission suspended trading in greenhouse gas emis...

Look, if China subsidizes green technologies, and then those technologies are created and sold at below-market prices to the U.S., then tha...

Or, why hoping for an international agreement in Cancun or elsewhere is senseless : In one paper Professor Kevin Anderson, Director of the T...

Erik Voeten at The Monkey Cage comments on a new paper demonstrating the income elasticity of demand of public morals : The authors argue t...

Via MR, another data point to add to my "elasticity of public morals" hobby-horse (which I think I'm going to start calling ...

Drezner points to this WaPo item , noting that IMF protests ain't what they used to be: Opponents of the International Monetary Fund an...

No joke : Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez Wednesday accused the United States of causing the destruction in Haiti by testing a 'tectonic w...

You shouldn't be, because it's hardly been mentioned : That's a graph of news coverage in the U.S. this year, across media type ...

As expected, nothing much happened. I've run down the reasons why before . But there was one interesting moment (even besides the times...

From Copenhagen . Mugabe: Why is the guilty north not showing the same fundamentalist spirit it exhibits in our developing countries on huma...

Via IELPB , the Chinese don't agree with Paul Krugman's assertion that carbon tariffs (or the threat of them) could help put tee...

And the award goes to... (drumroll)... The New York Times, for "Biggest Obstacle to Global Climate Deal May Be How to Pay for It" ...

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA : Saudi Arabia is trying to enlist other oil-producing countries to support a provocative idea: if wealthy countries red...

KPC lays the beatdown on this Thomas Friedman column : Even dumber than the notion that China, the world's biggest polluter, has gone g...