Environmental Law

Global Warming and Natural Disasters:
Joel Achenbach has a fairly sensible column today on climate change and natural disasters....

JOHN TIERNEY: U.S. Climate Report Assailed: The new federal report on climate change gets a withe
JOHN TIERNEY: U.S. Climate Report Assailed: “The new federal report on climate change gets a withering critique from Roger Pielke Jr., who says that it misrepresents his own research and that it wrongly concludes that climate change is already responsible for an increase in damages from natural disasters...

Washington Post-ABC Poll re Obama and Climate Change
This Washington Post article sums up pretty well, I think, the results of the ABC-WP opinion poll looking at American views of climate change, science and scientists involved in climatology, Copenhagen, President Obama?s role and that of the administration, and the idea of spending US tax money on the climate change fund...

New L&C Law Scholarship: The Rising Tide of Climate Change
Joshua P. Fershee , The Rising Tide of Climate Change: What America’s Flood Cities Can Teach Us About Energy Policy and Why We Should Be Worried, 39 Environmental Law Review 1109 (2009) To provide a model for assessing the current and likely responses to climate change risks, this Article considers two of the worst flood disasters [...

Roughly Four Out of Ten Americans Believe Disasters Like Japanese Earthquake Directed By God
Roughly four out of ten Americans still like that old testament version of God — full of wrath and fury. A poll by Public Religion Research Institute and Religion News Surveshows that forty percent of our citizens still believe that God directs such disasters like the Japanese earthquake for a purpose...

BBC: Climate scepticism on the rise, BBC poll shows. UPDATE: Effort underway to suspend Calif
BBC: Climate scepticism ‘on the rise’, BBC poll shows. UPDATE: Effort underway to suspend California’s global-warming law. Until unemployment drops below 5.5%.