We talk about the relatively simple problem of global climate change with Brigham Daniels. Starting with EPA’s just-proposed regulations, we discuss the very odd way that U.S. law has confronted the problem. Why has it become a partisan issue and how do we overcome that? Are economic signals enough or must ethics change and tribal alliances break down? How might that happen? Darcy and a special canine guest make brief appearances.

This show’s links:

• Brigham Daniels’ faculty profile and writing
• Brigham Daniels, Addressing Global Climate Change in an Age of Political Climate Change
• EPA, Carbon Pollution Standards
• EPA, Carbon Power Plan Proposed Rule, including links to the proposed rule and numerous fact sheets concerning the EPA’s proposed rule for existing power plants
• Vox’s Guide to Obama's New Rules to Cut Carbon Emissions from Power Plants
• Jonathan Cohn, Obama's New Rules for Coal Plants Are a B.F.D. The Ensuing Political Fight May Be Even Bigger
• The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, website and wikipedia
• Explanation of the Kyoto Protocol
• U.S. Global Change Research Program, 2014 National Climate Assessment
• USGCPR, Appendix: Climate Science Supplement
• About the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change or IPCC
• IPCC Assessments
• Massachusetts v. EPA, holding (among other things) that EPA has authority under some parts of the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse gas emissions
• EPA, Section 111(d) Plans mandated after an endangerment finding
• In re Polar Bear Endangered Species Act Listing, in which the D.C. Circuit upholds U.S. Fish and Wildlife’s listing of the polar bear as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act
• Justin Gillis and Kenneth Chang, of-parts-of-west-antarctica-ice-sheet-has-begun-scientists-say.html">Scientists Warn of Rising Oceans From Polar Melt
• Ezra Klein, How Politics Makes Us Stupid
• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Climate Change Debate on YouTube
• Letter from Moynihan to Ehrlichman in the Nixon White House warning that rising carbon dioxide levels were “very clearly” a “problem,” potentially destroying New York and Washington
• Competitive Enterprise Institute, Energy, YouTube video (“They call it pollution. We call it life.”)
• Kevin Drum, Sorry, "Daily Show": Anti-Vax Nuts Come From Both Sides of the Aisle
• Jedediah Purdy, change-needs-the-politics-of-the-impossible.html">Climate Change Needs the Politics of the Impossible
• Ezra Klein, 7 Reasons America Will Fail on Climate Change