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Corresponding Web Notes: Where do we go from here? (pptx / pdf / key)


NOTE:
CITED U.S. GOVERNMENT SOURCES MAY NOW HAVE DISAPPEARED DUE TO THE FOLLOWING
(but my cached copies remain online)

"On December 1, 2025, the US Department of Energy changed the laboratory's name from "National Renewable Energy Laboratory" to "National Laboratory of the Rockies", stating that the new name "reflects laboratory’s expanding mission under the Trump Administration"

National Laboratory of the Rockies, Wikipedia (link / cached copy)

"Disappearing Data: Trump Administration Removing Climate Information from Government Websites"

National Security Archive, George Washington University, February 2025 (link / cached copy)



Cap and Trade:

"Cap and Trade Essentials" - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - (link / cached copy)

"Carbon Pricing 101" - Union of Concerned Scientists (link / cached copy)

"The Political History of Cap and Trade" - Smithsonian Magazine (link / cached copy)

"How Cap and Trade Works" - Environmental Defense Fund (link / cached copy)

"Cap and trade is the most cost-effective way to reduce emissions" - FERN.org (link / cached copy)

"How Cap and Trade is Working in California" - Wall Street Journal (link / cached copy)

"Cap and Trade is Not Enough" - C. Samaras, J. Apt, I.L. Azevedo, L.B. Lave, M.G. Morgan & E.S. Rubin, Carnegie Mellon University (link / cached copy)

"Assessing the Effectiveness of the EU Emissions Trading System" - Center for Climate Change Economics and Policy (link / cached copy)

Carbon Footprint of Electric Power Technologies:

"Efficiency in Electricity Generation" - EURELECTRIC Working Group (link / cached copy)

"Controlling Power Plant CO2 Emissions: A Long Range View" - J. Marion, N. Nasakala, T. Griffin, A. Bill - ALSTOM Power Tech. Inc. / U.S. DOE Conf. Proc. (link / cached copy)

"Emission Cuts Realities for Electricity Generation: Costs & CO2 Emissions" - BraveNewClimate.com (link / cached copy)

"Gas Fired Power" - International Energy Agency (link / cached copy)

"Natural Gas Combined-Cycle Plant" - U.S. Department of Energy (link / cached copy)

Source of Electrical Power in U.S. States:

"Coal, Gas, Nuclear, Hydro? How Your State Generates Power" - National Public Radio (link / cached copy)

James Hansen - NASA Controversy:

"Climate Expert Says NASA Tried to Silence Him" - New York times (link / cached copy)

NASA Scientist Quits to Fight Global Warming" - Scientific American (link / cached copy)

NASA Reaches for Muzzle as Renowned Climate Scientist Speaks Out" - Union of Concerned Scientists (link / cached copy)

James Hansen - 100% Dividend Carbon Tax Proposal:

"Cap and Fade" - J. Hansen - New York Times - Op Ed (link / cached copy)

"Carbon Tax and 100% Dividend" - James Hansen, Columbia University (link / cached copy)

Social Cost of Carbon:

"How Large are Global Subsidies" - International Monetary Fund 2015 (link / cached copy)

A Global Vulnerability Assessment: Vulnerability of Coastal Areas to Sea Level Rise, F.M.J. Hoozemans, M.J.F. Stive, and L. Bijisma, 1993 (link / cached copy)

Integrated Assessment of Climate Change: An Overview and Comparison of Approaches and Results, J. Weyant et al., pp. 367-396, 1996, Cambridge University Press (link / cached copy)

"Perspectives on Climate Change and Sustainability" - G.W. Yohe et al., Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (link / cached copy)

Estimates of the Damage costs of Climate Change - Part II: Dynamic Estimates, R.S.J. Tol, Environmental and Resource Economics 21, 135-160, 2002 (link)

The Marginal Damage Costs of Carbon Dioxide Emissions: An Assessment of the Uncertainties, R.S.J. Tol, Energy Policy 33, 2064-74, 2005 (link)

Neo-Atlantis: The Netherlands under a 5-m Sea Level Rise, X, Olsthoorn, P. van der Werff, L.M. Bouwer and D. Huitema, Climatic Change 91, 103-122, 2008 (link / cached copy)

The Economic Effects of Climate Change, R.S.J. Tol, Journal of Economic Perspectives 23(2), 29-51, 2009 (link / cached copy)

Assessment Paper: Climate Change, R.S.J. Tol, Copenhagen Consensus on Human Challenges - 2011 (link / cached copy)

Millions projected at Risk from Sea Level Rise in the Continental United States, M.E. Hauer, J.M. Evans and D.R. Mishra, Nature Climate Change 6, 691-695, 2015 (link)

Breaking News:

September 2019:

Missing Economic Risks in Assessments of Climate Change Impacts, Grantham Research Institute, Columbia University (link / cached copy)

Climate Change Will Cost Us Even More Than We Think, New York Times (link / cached copy)

October 2019

New elevation data triple estimates of global vulnerability to sea-level rise and coastal flooding, Nature Communications (link / cached copy)

Flooded Future - Global vulnerability to sea level rise worse than previously understood, Climate Central Org (link / cached copy)

Sea level rise to affect 'three times more people', BBC News (link / cached copy)

Rising sea levels pose threat to homes of 300m people, The Guardian (link / cached copy)