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The NYT's Tom Friedman is wrong
We are not yet the 'people we have been waiting for' to solve 'global weirding' |
Joseph Romm |
04 Dec 2007 |
Gristmill |
| In general, I am a big fan of New York Times columnist Tom Friedman, one of the few national columnists who writes regularly and intelligently on energy and climate matters. But his recent column, 'The People We Have Been Waiting For,' goes off track -- twice. First, he writes: ... sweet-sounding 'global warming' doesn't really capture what's likely to happen. I prefer the term 'global weirding,' coined by Hunter Lovins, co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, energy, politics, tech (all these topics) |
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The meaning of global warming, part one
Stabilizing the climate requires technology, public investment, and global economic development |
David Roberts |
05 Oct 2007 |
Gristmill |
| The following is a guest essay by Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, the latest in the ongoing conversation about their new book Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility. ----- Thank you to everyone here who has participated in this discussion. We are grateful to Grist to making the space for this debate, and to everyone who has chimed in. Through agreement and disagreement alike, it is inspiring to find this man ... |
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| Topics: business, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, politics, tech (all these topics) |
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Debunking Shellenberger & Nordhaus: Part II
Breaking the technology breakthrough myth |
Joseph Romm |
04 Oct 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Do we need 'disruptive clean-energy technologies that achieve non-incremental breakthroughs' to solve the global warming problem, as S&N (and Lomborg, and Bush, and his advisors) argue? Let's hope not -- for the sake of the next 50 generations. Why? Two reasons: Such breakthroughs hardly ever happen. Even when they do happen, they rarely have a transformative impact on energy markets, even over a span of decades. Consider that solar photovoltaic cells ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, energy, politics, tech (all these topics) |
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