Archive for 'Climate Economics'
Fly Derrie-Air
With the tremendous increases in the price of fuel (the price of light sweet crude, the benchmark indicator for crude oil prices, went up over $10 in a single day on the New York Mercantile Exchange for July delivery - almost 10%), including setting up a new record high of $139.12. There are many reasons [...]
Posted: June 8th, 2008 under Adaptation, Climate Economics.
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Got Rice, or Your Cheese Burger Now Costs $14
Well, as it turns out, the Nerdy Climate Guys learned today that the State Department issued an internal departmental notice that it is raising prices for food within its cafeteria. Is this because of the global food price increases? If so, someone should mention this to the Bureau of Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs, which [...]
Posted: May 6th, 2008 under Climate Economics.
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Adapting Food Production
Following on the earlier post regarding rising food prices as a result of climate change, the Washington Post has a good article detailing the myriad challenges farmers and planners will face to adapt their agricultural practices, food production systems, and food distribution issues in response to a changing climate.
In a warmer world beset by greater [...]
Posted: May 5th, 2008 under Adaptation, Climate Economics.
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Got Rice?
On Thursday, the food crisis actually hit home when I opened up the Washington Post, and found the headline lead on the front of the business section, “Citing Supply, Sam’s Club and Costco Limit Sales of Rice“. Granted, the limitation was for 200 pounds of rice per visit. I like rice, but not that much. [...]
Posted: April 26th, 2008 under Climate Economics.
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The Coming Storm
A new study in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society by MIT researchers Professor Kerry Emanuel, Prof. Emanuel’s postdoc Ragoth Sundararajan and graduate student John Williams, supports previous research suggesting that global climatic disruption may increase the intensity of storms, even though the number of such storms would decline, although there was some variability [...]
Posted: April 24th, 2008 under Climate Economics.
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