Each week, I review the papers, studies, reports, and briefings posted over at the RFF Library Blog.
Fixing the Foul Play: Mitigating the Environmental and Public Health Damage Caused by the Volkswagen Emissions Scandal
[Politico’s Morning Energy — email] The Center for American Progress is out today with a new report today recommending that EPA and DOJ make Volkswagen pay in multiple ways for its tricky, emissions-test-deceiving diesel vehicles. The report outlines the potential downsides of a recall effort, like the possibility consumers may opt not to retrofit their cars and the likelihood for uneven enforcement across states and localities. It instead calls for the feds to take a three-pronged approach to compelling the automaker to right its wrongs. - via Center for American Progress
Rising Leaders on Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change
[GreenBiz] Recent research from Yale University, the Global Network for Advanced Management and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) shows that a new generation of talent is insisting on a more environmentally conscious approach to business. - via Yale Center for Business and the Environment
Consequences of Twenty-first-century Policy for Multi-millennial Climate and Sea-level Change
[Summary] Climate change projections that look ahead one or two centuries show a rapid rise in temperature and sea level, but say little about the longer picture. A new looks at the next 10,000 years, and finds that the catastrophic impact of another three centuries of carbon pollution will persist millennia after the carbon dioxide releases cease. - via Nature Climate Change by Peter U. Clark, et al.
Ice Melt, Sea Level Rise and Superstorms: Evidence from Paleoclimate Data, Climate Modeling, and Modern Observations That 2 °C Global Warming Could be Dangerous
[Washington Post] Hansen and his colleagues think that major melting of Greenland and Antarctica can not only happen quite fast — leading to as much as several meters of sea level rise in the space of a century, depending on how quickly melt rates double — but that this melting will have dramatic climate change consequences, beyond merely raising sea levels. - via Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics by James Hansen et al.
Rooftop Solar Photovoltaic Technical Potential in the United States: A Detailed Assessment
[From an E&E News PM article by Christa Marshall, sub. req’d] U.S. rooftops could generate 80 percent more energy from solar panels than previously thought, according to a new analysis from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. - via National Renewable Energy Laboratory
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