I really wish The Economist would discover the religion of human-readable URLs, in addition to the religion of free-markets-are-always-better. But I’m thrilled that they’ve written such a thorough and readable explanation of the actual high level agreements and controversy on climate change, I haven’t seen better (realclimate.org came close for a while, but lately they’ve gotten more shrill and they’ve always been too technical for me, much less your average non-physics-major. Their wiki still kicks ass as the definitive source for helping rebut most climate skeptic canards, though).
And as an aside, happy progressives-actually-passed-big-progressive-legislation week! First time in my lifetime, maybe since LBJ! Did you see that David Frum of all people is saying the Republicans should strive to replace the income-tax provisions of the health care bill with other taxes perhaps a carbon tax? Who knew passing health care would get Republicans agreeing with Al Gore! I would actually support all the legislation he’s proposing, I think.
11:36, 29.03.2010
And – note that Frum has now been ousted from his prestigious GOP standing as a result, when he was kicked out of the American Enterprise Institute because of that article.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/03/david_frum_out_at_conservative.html
You can read his original article here:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/03/22/frum.healthcare.gop.strategy/index.html
13:22, 12.08.2010
it is very evident that climate change is already taking effect in this decade*;`