Posted on 04/25/2009 4:48:50 AM PDT by reaganaut1
WE are often told that tackling global warming should be the defining task of our age that we must cut emissions immediately and drastically. But people are not buying the idea that, unless we act, the planet is doomed. Several recent polls have revealed Americans growing skepticism. Solving global warming has become their lowest policy priority, according to a new Pew survey.
Moreover, strategies to reduce carbon have failed. Meeting in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, politicians from wealthy countries promised to cut emissions by 2000, but did no such thing. In Kyoto in 1997, leaders promised even stricter reductions by 2010, yet emissions have kept increasing unabated. Still, the leaders plan to meet in Copenhagen this December to agree to even more of the same drastic reductions in emissions that no one will live up to. Another decade will be wasted.
Fortunately, there is a better option: to make low-carbon alternatives like solar and wind energy competitive with old carbon sources. This requires much more spending on research and development of low-carbon energy technology. We might have assumed that investment in this research would have increased when the Kyoto Protocol made fossil fuel use more expensive, but it has not.
Economic estimates that assign value to the long-term benefits that would come from reducing warming things like fewer deaths from heat and less flooding show that every dollar invested in quickly making low-carbon energy cheaper can do $16 worth of good. If the Kyoto agreement were fully obeyed through 2099, it would cut temperatures by only 0.3 degrees Fahrenheit. Each dollar would do only about 30 cents worth of good.
The Copenhagen agreement should instead call for every country to spend [0.05%] of its gross domestic product on low-carbon energy research and development.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
I am skeptical of Lomborg's call for massive spending energy R&D. Nuclear energy is ready now. Maybe Lomborg advocates the R&D spending to show that he is in favor of doing something.
This is just an outright lie. How can they prove this "theory"? It's never been tried.
Economic estimates that assign value to the long-term benefits that would come from reducing warming things like fewer deaths from heat and less flooding show that every dollar invested in quickly making low-carbon energy cheaper can do $16 worth of good.
Right track - wrong train.
It is patently obvious that lower emissions is not the goal at all - it is pablum for the masses
The goal is control - just like in the movie, The Matrix
Control and taking trillions of dollars from the Western World, and giving it to the Socialist cause & the third world, both of which achieve the goal of making us poorer and legalizing the theft of our hard earned wealth.
To this end they will also camouflage the immediate effects of this impoverishment by printing trillions of dollars, thereby pushing the consequence of this onto a newer, even more dumbed down and controlled, generation.
see tagline.
The only way to save the planet is to rape taxpayers. Got it.
Sure, for the NY Times making up statistics is A-ok.
Libs should volunteer to live a life of poverty. Al Gore first.
86.8% of statistics quoted on the web and in the media are made up.
Of course, under Obama’s proposed cap and trade scheme, we’re facing a much greater likelihood of increased weather-related deaths due to both heat and cold because of too expensive natural gas and electricity.
Cap-and-trade! China WILL NOT play by the rules, U.S. industry gets SCREWED and Al Gore gets even richer!
He certainly didn't help himself with that statement.
Compromise climate bill possible
'World News' Airs Catastrophic Global Warming story for Earth Day
Global Warming on Free Republic
This guy Bjorn Lumborg is a middle of the roader who will get run over by both sides.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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