The Jefferson Journal
Commentary
This ninth annual economic forecast, prepared by Chmura Economics and Analytics, anticipates that Virginia’s economy will be sluggish for the remainder of 2008 before improving in 2009. Single-family building permits, which fell more than 20 percent in both 2006 and 2007, are forecast to continue declining over the next two...
How do you create an energy policy that combines concern about energy needs with concerns over climate change? This paper, presented to the Virginia House of Delegates, provides a policy framework for evaluating energy and climate related proposals, and suggests various programs and projects that combine into a climate-friendly energy...
“Virginians should be fed up with a transportation debate that focuses only on more taxes and not on reforming a system that isn’t working well in the 21st Century,” says Jefferson Institute President Michael W. Thompson. Here are thirteen ideas for genuine reform that wold address development, efficiency, and congestion...
How do you create an energy policy that combines concern about energy needs with concerns over climate change? This paper, presented to the Virginia House of Delegates, provides a policy framework for evaluating energy and climate related proposals, and suggests various programs and projects that combine into a climate-friendly energy...
Why is Virginia’s climate change goal neither practically achievable or necessary in order to prevent catastrophic climate effects? The Jefferson Institute’s Center for Environmental Stewardship has the answer. This presentation before Governor Tim Kaine’s Climate Change Commission explains how geoengineering techniques can prevent the effects of climate change and provide...
The most recent federal law affecting the communications industry as a whole was the Telecommunications Act of 1996. It failed to anticipate the widespread adoption of wireless communicationns and new applications like Instant Messaging and Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP), let alone the broad substitution for traditional “land line” phone...
This paper, delivered at the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change, offers the contours of a middle ground on the climate change issues. It calls for geoengineering as a means to put off the most catastrophic potential effects, at least for a few decades; an immediate reduction in greenhouse gas...
The Fredericksburg Free-Lance Star requested a commentary by Center for Environmental Stewardship Director David Schnare regarding climate change and how best to address the threat. The commentary appeared on March 16, 2008.
... The Thomas Jefferson Institute continues to impact state public policy like no other independent public policy foundation — from increasing government transparency, to defeat of universal pre-k, to cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay and using geo-engineering to manage climate change. And we expect more of our ideas to become policy...