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Facing up to "Environmental Change"

March 21, 2011 by Keith Kloor | Filed in climate change, energy policy, energy security, environmental change | 2 comments

Cleo Paskal, whose book I reviewed last year, has a smart piece on what’s being left out in risk assessments for energy installations: First, due to changing environmental conditions (sea level rise, subsidence, changing storm activity, etc.), historical records may no longer be reliable predictors for future risks. For example, the summer of 2003 was…Continue Reading…

Look at the Whole Equation

March 17, 2011 by Keith Kloor | Filed in Energy, energy policy, energy security | 4 comments

That’s essentially what Michael Levi is saying in this smart post. His lament is that energy and related environmental issues are not viewed through a wider lens: Until we can think about security, economics, and environmental risk at the same time, we’re going to have a lot of trouble developing an energy policy that makes sense….Continue Reading…