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Conspiracy!

Even as conspiracy theories go, the

Some members of Congress — not to mention any number of bloggers — think climate change is a hoax. Most famously, Senator Inhofe has said: With all of the hysteria, all of the fear, all of the phony science, could it be that manmade global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American …

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The Credibility of Climate Science

Climate denialists contend that climate science is either the result of a conspiracy of some kind or of groupthink plus institutional incentives to support alarmist predictions. The conspiracy theory makes even less sense than most conspiracy theories, because there would have to be hundreds, perhaps thousands of people involved, scattered across the world at numerous …

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Climategate: Did the Russians do it?

The “Climategate” story gets even weirder. New Scientist reports (picking up the story from The Independent) that anonymous sources in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change think the Russian secret service is responsible for hacking into e-mail at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit. The reported evidence? [T]he hacked data apparently surfaced on …

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The Monument to the Unknown Bureaucrat

Yes, there actually is one. It’s in Reykjavík. And here’s why it’s worth pondering.

Show Time: Stark message from the International Energy Agency

Cost-Benefit Analysis: FAQs

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Yes, there actually is one. It’s in Reykjavík. And here’s why it’s worth pondering.

Cost-benefit analysis has been a key part of the regulatory process since 1980. Here’s how it works.

Not much for rhetoric, but a reliable vote for environmental protection.

State court concludes that state does have the authority to intervene in local regulation of land-use

Local control over land-use regulation means local governments focus more on the harms than the benefits of housing

What the current fossil fuel energy crisis means for climate and clean energy policy

A major, bipartisan step forward in an unlikely state.

How much does zero emissions warming commitment matter, and what are its political implications?

Updating the state’s landmark biodiversity law for the twenty-first century

UCLA Wells Clinic provides legal support.

Forty years ago, the legal academia was getting its first glimmering about climate change.

Help, our energy system screwed up our planet!

Updating the state’s landmark biodiversity law for the twenty-first century

How much does zero emissions warming commitment matter, and what are its political implications?

What the current fossil fuel energy crisis means for climate and clean energy policy

Local control over land-use regulation means local governments focus more on the harms than the benefits of housing

State court concludes that state does have the authority to intervene in local regulation of land-use