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DESCRIPTION:As climate policy gets debated in Washington and around the world, Dr. 
 Roger Pielke, Jr., an expert on science and environmental policy, will 
 argue that the current climate policy framework rests on faulty assumptions 
 about energy efficiency and the decarbonization of the global economy. 
 Pielke is lead author of a controversial 2008 Nature article, "Dangerous 
 Assumptions," which argued that the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel 
 on Climate Change based its policy analysis on highly optimistic 
 assumptions about future efficiency gains and also missed the 
 recarbonization of the global economy, due largely to the turn back to coal 
 led by China and India.\n\nPielke will argue that such flawed assumptions 
 lead many analyses to routinely double-count emissions reductions achieved 
 through energy efficiency, and ignore the actual history of technological 
 change, making the challenge of decarbonization seem easier and less 
 costly. The result, he argues, is that the policies we are debating are far 
 from up to the challenge of stabilizing concentrations of greenhouse gases 
 at levels now deemed acceptable. Pielke will lay out an alternative 
 framework for action on climate change, one focused on technology 
 innovation, adaptation, and decarbonization of the global economy.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/06/22/18603466.php
SUMMARY:The Efficiency Illusion and other Energy Myths w/ Dr. Roger Pielke Jr.
LOCATION:Giannini Hall Room 141, UC-Berkeley
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/06/22/18603466.php
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