[SAJ]

Exactly what the discussion needs -- more light, less heat.

[dirtboy]

Political economists Henry Jacoby, Ronald Prinn, and Richard Schmalensee put the matter bluntly: “It will be nearly impossible to slow climate warming appreciably without condemning much of the world to poverty, unless energy sources that emit little or no carbon dioxide become competitive with conventional fossil fuels.”

This is exactly what the enviro-whackos want - to use Kyoto to force their vision of sustainable (i.e., severely diminished) development upon the First World.

[aruanan]

Exactly what the discussion needs -- more light, less heat.

See also the papers by Thomas Gale Moore at the Hoover Institution. One of my favorites is Happiness Is a Warm Planet.