nytimes.com - 9/25/2009
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So, have you enjoyed the debate over health care reform? Have you been impressed by the civility of the discussion and the intellectual honesty of reform opponents? If so, you’ll love the next big debate: the fight over climate change. The House has already passed a fairly strong cap-and-trade ...
cartercenter.org - 9/22/2009
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18 July 2007 By Norman E. Borlaug This
op-ed was published in the July 18, 2007, edition...
of the Wall Street Journal (Eastern Edition). Copyright (c) 2007, Dow Jones & Company Inc. Reproduced with permission of copyright owner. Further reproduction or ...
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Continuing the Green Revolution: Wall Street Journal Op-Ed
nytimes.com - 9/28/2009
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Every once in a while I feel despair
over the fate of the planet. If you’ve been...
following climate science, you know what I mean: the sense that we’re hurtling toward catastrophe but nobody wants to hear about it or do anything to avert it. And here’s ...
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Op-Ed Columnist - Cassandras of Climate
nytimes.com - 9/21/2009
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Do we owe the French and other Europeans
a second look when it comes to their willingness...
to exercise power in today’s world? Was it really fair for some to call the French and other Europeans “cheese-eating surrender monkeys?” Is it time to restore ...
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Op-Ed Columnist - Real Men Tax Gas
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Drumbeat: September 25, 2009
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... because nobody knows for sure how the vast ice sheets covering Greenland and Antarctica — especially the glaciers that flow down and into the sea — will respond.
At summit, doubts grow on reaching climate deal
PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (AFP) – European leaders voiced growing doubts on whether the world will meet a December deadline for a new climate deal as a summit here looked set to take up global warming in generalities.
Krugman: It’s Easy Being Green
Even corporations are losing patience with the ...
Misguided Incentives
Energy Outlook —
... solar panels, had at least as much to do with industrial policy as protecting the environment. In fact, Germany may have harmed the environment by wasting money on an impractical solution for such a cloudy place, when the same funds could have bought much greater emissions reductions in other areas of the economy. This should serve as a cautionary tale for those who are promoting similar incentives here, and for columnists--even those with a Nobel Prize in Economics--who argue that going green will be cheap. It won't be if we encourage the wrong technologies with bloated ...
It’s Easy Being Green
Do The Green Thing: Stories, videos, and more —
Excellent NY Times op-ed piece by the ever-brilliant Paul Krugman on efforts to discredit the US Waxman-Markey cap & trade bill in the run up to Copenhagen.
Arguments against have moved from global-warming denial to economic catastrophe (it's worth noting that this was the same argument vested interests had against the abolition of slavery nearly two and a half centuries ago).
Krugman dismisses the economic arguments and says it has about the same credibility as climate change denial:
"So here’s the bottom ...
It’s Easy Being Green
Do The Green Thing: Stories, videos, and more —
Excellent NY Times op-ed piece by the ever-brilliant Paul Krugman on efforts to discredit the US Waxman-Markey cap & trade bill in the run up to Copenhagen.
Arguments against have moved from global-warming denial to economic catastrophe (it's worth noting that this was the same argument vested interests had against the abolition of slavery nearly two and a half centuries ago).
Krugman dismisses the economic arguments and says it has about the same credibility as climate change denial:
"So here’s the bottom ...
Cassandras of Climate
Ecoearth.info Blog —
... government action. And rather than concede the limits of their philosophy, many on the right have chosen to deny that the problem exists. So here we are, with the greatest challenge facing mankind on the back burner, at best, as a policy issue. I’m not, by the way, saying that the Obama administration was wrong to push health care first. It was necessary to show voters a tangible achievement before next November. But climate change legislation had better be next. And as I pointed out in my last column , we can afford to do this. Even as climate modelers have been reaching ...
NYT's Krugman: Slamming the Fantasy World of Glenn Beck
DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science —
... For others who missed Paul Krugman column from last Thursday's New York Times, it's worth a look. Krugman nails the Fox fantasist Glenn Beck for quoting reports that he can't produce. Krugman says: ...
Nobelist Krugman offers Climate Economics 101, “claims of immense economic damage from climate legislation are as bogus, in their own way, as climate-change denial,” quotes Climate Progress
Climate Progress —
... So Paul Krugman wrote in his Friday NYT column, “It’s Easy Being Green.” He provides more detail in two blog posts, “ ...
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