tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post6942954653909721112..comments2024-03-06T06:34:42.881-05:00Comments on EconoSpeak: Climate Disclosure: More than a Carbon InventoryUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-4861344097140841492010-01-30T00:07:02.086-05:002010-01-30T00:07:02.086-05:00From the linked NY Times article:
"According...From the linked NY Times article:<br /><br />"According to an S.E.C. staff paper, the new guidance urges companies to consider, for example, whether any new law or international treaty limiting carbon dioxide emissions might increase operating costs and prompt a disclosure requirement. A company might also be well positioned to take advantage of a new law mandating increased production of renewable electricity, again requiring disclosure".<br /><br />This is weird. There is a difference between vulnerability to climate change and vulnerability to policy responses to climate change.gordonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-74690411541618131672010-01-29T22:49:39.766-05:002010-01-29T22:49:39.766-05:00PC PC PCPC PC PCAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-42195848799005037682010-01-28T16:18:44.958-05:002010-01-28T16:18:44.958-05:00While I'm all for such deep, multi-faceted ana...While I'm all for such deep, multi-faceted analyses, but before they look for rising oil prices due to climate change, they'd better take into account the moredirect causation due to either scarcity and/or political upheaval in oil-rich regions. And even after that, factorslike this <a href="http://crisismaven.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/bloom-of-doom-ii-of-mortgage-brokers-arms-attrition-and-marathons/" rel="nofollow">Of Mortgage Brokers, ARMs, Attrition and Marathons</a> might play a bigger role in reducing college attendance than climate change.CrisisMavenhttp://crisismaven.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com