James McFarland
United States Environmental Protection Agency
22 Papers
56 Citations
James McFarland is an academic researcher from United States Environmental Protection Agency. The author has contributed to research in topics: Climate change & Carbon tax. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 22 publications.
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Papers
Can Paris pledges avert severe climate change
Allen A. Fawcett,Gokul Iyer,Leon Clarke,James A. Edmonds,Nathan E. Hultman,Haewon McJeon,Joeri Rogelj,Reed Schuler,Jameel Alsalam,Ghassem R. Asrar,Jared Creason,Minji Jeong,James McFarland,Anupriya Mundra,Wenjing Shi +14 more
TL;DR: It is important to understand what these INDCs collectively deliver in terms of how much do they reduce the probability of the highest levels of global mean surface temperature change and improve the odds of achieving the international goal of limiting temperature change to under 2°C relative to preindustrial levels.
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Can updated climate pledges limit warming well below 2°C?
Yang Ou,Gokul Iyer,Leon Clarke,Jae Edmonds,Allen A. Fawcett,Nathan E. Hultman,Nathan E. Hultman,James McFarland,Matthew Binsted,Ryna Cui,Claire Fyson,Andreas Geiges,Sofia Gonzales-Zuñiga,Matthew Gidden,Niklas Höhne,Louise Jeffery,Takeshi Kuramochi,Jared Lewis,Malte Meinshausen,Zebedee Nicholls,Pralit Patel,Shaun Ragnauth,Joeri Rogelj,Joeri Rogelj,Stephanie Waldhoff,Sha Yu,Haewon McJeon +26 more
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The contribution of Paris to limit global warming to 2 °C
Gokul Iyer,James A. Edmonds,Allen A. Fawcett,Nathan E. Hultman,Jameel Alsalam,Ghassem R. Asrar,Katherine Calvin,Leon Clarke,Jared Creason,Minji Jeong,Page Kyle,James McFarland,Anupriya Mundra,Pralit Patel,Wenjing Shi,Haewon McJeon +15 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the Global Change Assessment Model (GCAM) to analyze the near versus long-term energy and economic-cost implications of these INDCs, and they found that the announced INDC commitments imply near-term actions that reduce the level of mitigation needed in the post-2030 period, particularly when compared with an alternative path in which nations are unable to undertake emissions mitigation until after 2030.
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Impacts of rising air temperatures and emissions mitigation on electricity demand and supply in the United States: a multi-model comparison
James McFarland,Yuyu Zhou,Leon Clarke,Patrick Sullivan,Jesse Colman,Wendy S. Jaglom,Michelle F. Colley,Pralit Patel,Jiyong Eom,Son H. Kim,G. Page Kyle,Peter A. Schultz,Boddu N. Venkatesh,Juanita Haydel,Charlotte Mack,Jared Creason +15 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the physical impacts of climate change on the power sector by applying a common set of temperature projections to three well-known electric sector models in the United States: the US version of the Global Change Assessment Model (GCAM-USA), the Regional Electricity Deployment System model (ReEDS), and the Integrated Planning Model (IPM).
Policy insights from the emf 32 study on u.s. carbon tax scenarios.
TL;DR: It is concluded that model uncertainties are too large to make quantitative results useful for near-term policy design and recommendations for policymakers on interacting with model results in the future are described.