Each week, we review the papers, studies, reports, and briefings posted at the “indispensable” RFF Library Blog, curated by RFF Librarian Chris Clotworthy. Check out this week’s highlights below:
Economics of Climate Change in East Asia
This regional study includes the People’s Republic of China, Japan, the Republic of Korea, and Mongolia and examines how strategies for adapting to climate change up to 2050 can be combined with measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in East Asia. Besides discussing climate model results for costs of adaptation in infrastructure, coastal protection... — via Asian Development Bank
Historical Trends in Greenhouse Gas Emissions of the Alberta Oil Sands (1970–2010)
The carbon intensity (CI) of Alberta oil sands production has significantly decreased over the last 40 years, according to a new study by a team from Stanford University published as an open access paper in the journal Environmental Research Letters. — via Environmental Research Letters
DotEarth: ...Yes, those rapacious miners and drillers of ores, oil and gas. How dare they? The findings came from the Climate Accountability Institute, an entity led by Richard Heede, whose company, Climate Mitigation Services, advises companies, municipalities and others on how to cut greenhouse gases, and Naomi Oreskes, the Harvard historian and co-author of “Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming.” — via Climatic Change
Exaggerating the Employment Impacts of Shale Drilling: How and Why
Energy development in the Marcellus and Utica shales has generated far fewer jobs than industry supporters claim, according to a new regional study. The six-state economic report is critical of employment estimates that include jobs from ancillary industries like engineering services and freight trucking. Adding those jobs overstates the shale industry’s employment impact, the study says... — via Multi-State Shale Research Collaborative
EPA Standards for Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Power Plants: Many Questions, Some Answers
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) is downplaying both the costs and benefits of EPA’s pending climate new source performance standard (NSPS) for future power plants, saying it will neither have a major impact on reducing greenhouse gases (GHGs) as some supporters claim or hasten the decline of coal-based power as critics say. — via Congressional Research Service
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