Overview
How has the flow of scientific information to and within the U.S. political establishment, and to the public to which it answers, influenced policy responses on the climate change issue? Why has climate change become polarized along party lines? Why, despite the polarization that has occurred around climate change, has the issue been so little activated in electoral politics? Should climate change be transformed into a bipartisan issue and what role might science play in facilitating this? Project Participants are addressing these and other issues in devising strategies to help ensure appropriate policy responses to credible climate change science.
Participants
Daniel Abbasi
Frank Baumgartner
William Becker
Thomas Brewer
Carolyn Brouillard
David Burwell
Deb Callahan
John Casey
Eileen Claussen
Jim DiPeso
Mohamed Elkeiy
Daniel Esty
Al Gore
Harrison Hickman
John Kerry
Steven Kull
George Lakoff
James Leach
Catherine Miller
Ronald Nordhaus
Dan Richardson
Larry Soward
Patrick Spears
Todd Stern
Lynn Stoddard
Timothy Wirth
Richard Wirthlin
Bill Yeates
Actions
- Design a new vision for energy
- Recast climate change as a moral and faith issue
- Increase the emphasis on adaptation and preparedness
- Recruit a bi-partisan group of party elders
- Conduct analysis and dialogue about the connections between systemic problems of democratic governance in the U.S. and climate change
News & Events
Eileen Claussen, President of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change talks at Yale F&ES about the need for America to show leadership on the climate issue, and offers a comprehensive energy plan to reduce carbon emmissions. Video - 45 minutes
1 comment
January 9th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
Judy Wright
There’s only one fair way to stop pollution: to charge for every unit of pollution released. (Carbon Tax). The money collected belongs equally to every person on the planet. (This will invite third-world gov’ts to tax their own polluters.) Imports from non-treaty nations have to over-pay an annually-refunded duty to sell goods in treaty nations, thus also paying for their nations’ pollution.
Each gov’t gets a small fund for its’ people, to be spent on solving their worst problems - water in arid places, solar sterilizers, wells, segregated sewage piping to farming areas.
The right of wandering or subsistence farmers - who survive without using ANY energy - is recognized by the gov’t setting aside their land for them; then the funds can be used to reduce their national debt.