The Bush administration had a climate policy referred to as “no regrets”. Focused on the economy, this plan was uncertain…

In Behind the Curve: Science and Politics of Global Warming, Joshua P. Howe critically examines the complex history of climate…

The assumption that more science will lead to better policy is often overly simplistic. Historian Joshua P. Howe, in Behind…

Almost 20 years after the 1972 Stockholm Conference, the United Nations gathered and held what would come to be known…

We are often taught to believe that knowledge leads to action, that the more certain science becomes, the more inevitable…

There was some hesitation to sign the Kyoto Protocol. The article says that the U.S. had disagreements on developing world…

The Keeling Curve is a visual representation of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations measured at the Mauna Loa Observatory, and it…

Reading Howe’s article reminds me that the US does a decent amount to say it will work on its carbon…

In Behind the Curve, Joshua Howe challenges the idea that more scientific knowledge automatically leads to political action regarding climate…