After agreement was reached in December 1997 on the Kyoto Protocol, its supporters pronounced that major carbon reductions were feasible and probable. Just do it, as the Nike commercial said. Build it and they will come, as the Field of Dreams movie said. And during the eight years of George W. Bush, Kyoto supporters complained mightily that we were leaving dollars on the ground, so to speak, while running out of climate and time.
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Continue ReadingOne hopes, as Obama constructs his energy and climate policy, that someone points him to an interesting article by Stephen Moore in the Wall Street Journal. In the article, Moore points out something that I experienced first-hand in California and that, in fact, guided me into a career in economic and environmental policy. What I noticed,…
Continue ReadingTwo quotations circa 1971 are germane to a final stocktaking of failed alarmist John Holdren. Both come from the introduction to Holdren and Paul Ehrlich, eds., Global Ecology (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971):…
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