Rich Puchalsky, thanks a lot. I didn't know about PERI, but I know about Robert Pollin (author of book, Contours of Descent) and Gerald Epstein (contributes to valuable magazine Dollars and Sense).
The people at PERI also did the study that found the problems with the Reinhart / Rogoff 90% austerity number. (Well, the two professors who co-authored the paper are at PERI. The lead author, the grad student, I'm not sure about.)
I've been working with them for a while on their Toxic 100 project. But we recently branched out into greenhouse gas work -- basically, taking the polluting facilities in the U.S., as reported to an EPA database, and adding them up by parent company. I was surprised by how much of the U.S. total emissions comes from a few companies.
Rich, the list was not very surprising, electric generators, oil companies, and the odd concrete/lime producer. What would be interesting would be a ranking of the electricity producters by percentage of coal/gas/nuclear/renewables.
Anything that looks at just electricity producers has been done often already, because they're very well studied and monitored in the U.S. both by EPA and DOE. NRDC has a "Benchmarking" yearly report that does just what you're talking about, I think.
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Bob Wards analysis of the UK is interesting. Seems that it will take a lot to turn around the UK post-email theft.
ReplyDeleteUh oh..., I think that I may have a fat head coming on....
ReplyDeleteI tweeted a link to my "global temperature virtual machine" to #climatechapman: https://twitter.com/caerbannog666/status/343763616333451264
And lookie who re-tweeted it!
I'm up to my armpits in the grand-conspiracy now!
--caerbannog the anonybunny
caerbannog, what about that cheque from Al Gore?
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Rich Puchalsky, thanks a lot. I didn't know about PERI, but I know about Robert Pollin (author of book, Contours of Descent) and Gerald Epstein (contributes to valuable magazine Dollars and Sense).
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ReplyDeletecaerbannog, what about that cheque from Al Gore?
No cheque -- just duffel-bags of cash, in unmarked non-sequential bills.
Oh, Al... I'm still waiting for that first duffel-bag. You haven't forgotten about me, have you??
--caerbannog the "I'm still waiting for my share of the loot" anonybunny
The people at PERI also did the study that found the problems with the Reinhart / Rogoff 90% austerity number. (Well, the two professors who co-authored the paper are at PERI. The lead author, the grad student, I'm not sure about.)
ReplyDeleteI've been working with them for a while on their Toxic 100 project. But we recently branched out into greenhouse gas work -- basically, taking the polluting facilities in the U.S., as reported to an EPA database, and adding them up by parent company. I was surprised by how much of the U.S. total emissions comes from a few companies.
Rich, the list was not very surprising, electric generators, oil companies, and the odd concrete/lime producer. What would be interesting would be a ranking of the electricity producters by percentage of coal/gas/nuclear/renewables.
ReplyDeleteAnything that looks at just electricity producers has been done often already, because they're very well studied and monitored in the U.S. both by EPA and DOE. NRDC has a "Benchmarking" yearly report that does just what you're talking about, I think.
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