sciam.com - 12/22/2008
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The ongoing disruption of the earth s climate by man-made greenhouse gases is already well beyond dangerous and is careening toward completely unmanageable. Under midrange projections for economic growth and technological change, the planet s average surface temperature in 2050 will be about two ...
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Transition talk: Really got a Holdren on me
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... And here's a piece titled "The Future of Climate Change Policy: The U.S.'s Last Chance to Lead," from Scientific American in October. An excerpt: ...
Chu, Browner, Holdren, Lubchenco: the Climate Superfriends
Worldchanging: Bright Green —
... the costlier solutions, the industrialized nations must lead – going first, paying more of the up-front costs, offering assistance to developing countries. This is a matter of historical responsibility, capacity, equity, and international law (the UNFCCC). ... The best basis for such an agreement in the short term is probably reductions in emission intensity (GHG/GDP); in the longer run, the only politically acceptable basis will be equal per-capita emissions rights. Or check out this article . (And, of course, as we've noted before, ...
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