@AWFlint

Republican who respects climate science and economics. Exec. dir., Alliance for Market Solutions (@AMSResearchOrg), former staff dir., Senate Energy Committee.

 Washington, DC
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Joined July 2010
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We Can’t Stop Climate Change, So We Need to Prepare for It by @AWFlint and @kaleekreider wsj.com/opinion/we-cant-stop…

Opinion | We Can’t Stop Climate Change, So We Need to Prepare for It

Adaptation doesn’t mean defeat but survival. It’s time to embrace a third way: clear-eyed realism.

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Remember the Base Realignment and Closure Commission? What about doing one of those for permitting reform? Got a better idea? realclearenergy.org/articles…

A Different Approach to Permitting Reform

Permitting reform must continue to be a priority. The latest proposal was a modest but important step. If enacted, it would have accelerated leasing of federal lands for every form of energy productio

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This is about when the Senate passes the bipartisan spending deal and adjourns for the year.
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Thomas Neff, who helped turn Soviet nukes into electricity, dies at 80

As a civilian physicist at MIT, he proposed a Cold War deal in which the Soviet Union converted uranium from its warheads into fuel for U.S. reactors.

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The US national debt just went over $32T. That's $95k/citizen and $248k/taxpayer. I really don't know what else to say.
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Regarding AI, @sundarpichai says climate activism causes him to think, "the collective will will come over time to tackle all of this responsibly." Well... I don't find that reassuring at all. nytimes.com/2023/03/31/techn…

Google C.E.O. Sundar Pichai on the A.I. Moment: ‘You Will See Us Be Bold’ (Published 2023)

In an extended interview, Mr. Pichai expressed both optimism and worry about the state of the A.I. race.

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I am curious about about reactions to this idea: realclearenergy.org/articles…

The Politics of and Opportunity for Permitting Reform

About 80 percent of U.S. energy is derived from fossil fuels. To reduce greenhouse gas emissions, we will need to replace extensive portions of our current energy system. Our permitting requirements p

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If you follow me, please take a few minutes to read this. crfb.org/papers/analysis-cbo…

Analysis of CBO's February 2023 Budget and Economic Outlook | Committee for a Responsible Federal...

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its latest Budget and Economic Outlook today, projecting the nation’s fiscal and economic future o

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Washington, we have a problem. crfb.org/blogs/what-would-it…

What Would It Take to Balance the Budget? | Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget

2023-01-12-We have published an updated analysis "

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This Thanksgiving, I am grateful @lisamurkowski won. The Senate is better for it.
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Pondering something and open to ideas that wouldn't otherwise occur to me. What are the climate policy lessons from the recent UK political and fiscal gyrations?
This NOPEC/anti-OPEC saber rattling is more troubling in a post-Trump/GOP protectionist era. It's dangerous policy, and the normal guardrails that have prevented this sort of thing in the past may be weak.
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These economists are starting to be really opinionated about climate: "The world must cut greenhouse gas emissions...[which will] impose short-term economic costs, though these are dwarfed by the innumerable long-term benefits of slowing climate change." imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/20…

Further Delaying Climate Policies Will Hurt Economic Growth

The transition to a greener future has a price—but the longer countries wait to make the shift, the larger the costs

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The national debt went over $31 trillion today. Each taxpayer's share is over $246,000. Let that sink in. How are we going to pay for that -- or, more realistically, how are our kids going to pay that?
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"The one change I would make to the global economy to better prepare us for the future would be to implement a global carbon pricing mechanism." -- Christian Keller, Head, Economics Research, Barclays weforum.org/agenda/2022/09/4…

4 experts explain how to prepare for a new economic reality and protect the most vulnerable | World...

Four chief economists explain which policies might address the immediate economic crisis with an eye to strengthening resilience in the long term.

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The technical, political, and moral issues of geo-engineering... I'm not sure where to begin, but it has begun: nytimes.com/2022/08/28/world…

Cloud Wars: Mideast Rivalries Rise Along a New Front (Published 2022)

As climate change makes the region hotter and drier, the U.A.E. is leading the effort to squeeze more rain out of the clouds, and other countries are rushing to keep up.

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Talking to friends about record temperatures and climate change can be challenging. Here's a great article in the MIT Technology Review to help those conversations: technologyreview.com/2022/07…

Do these heat waves mean climate change is happening faster than expected?

General warming predictions are still on track, but recent heat waves are a stress test for the modeling of extreme events.

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Do Senate Democrats have 50 votes for a reconciliation bill that doesn't address climate change?
Climate policy substance still matters. So, today, we offer that a carbon tax is better fiscal policy than increased corporate taxes. Good fiscal policy can also be good climate policy. amsresearch.org/report/macro…

Macroeconomic impacts of carbon pricing relative to a higher corporate income tax rate - Alliance...

Two policies that raise the same amount of revenue can have different economic impacts. Consumption taxes, which generally do not...

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The principal drivers for climate policy remain: rising temperatures and seas, government deficits, and carbon pricing by our trading partners. Those are strategic drivers and are independent of today's politicians.
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