Tag: global warming
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Paul Collier on Moralistic Conceptualizations of Climate Change
From Paul Collier's The Plundered Planet: Why we must – and how we can – manage nature for global prosperity: … The moral discourse on global warming starts from the attribution of blame, or, to return to the caricature of medieval Christian theology, of guilt. Industrial capitalism is guilty of polluting the world with carbon…
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Apocalyptic Climate Change Messages Backfire
Celsias: Be Careful how you put the Climate Change message … So it may be that stories of terrifying doom and gloom just don't have the effect of spurring people into action, and that people respond better to a story that offers some hope. And this may be true regardless of their initial world view.…
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How to live with climate change
The Economist: How to live with climate change It won’t be stopped, but its effects can be made less bad. COMPARED with the extraordinary fanfare before the global-warming summit in Copenhagen a year ago, the meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change that starts in Cancún next week has gone unheralded. That…
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Nuclear power needed now
Detnews.com: Nuclear power needed now … These nuclear plants will pump out power for economic growth without creating smog or loading the atmosphere with greenhouse gases. The United States already operates the largest fleet of nuclear power plants in the world with 104 reactors producing about 20 percent of our nation's electricity, but there hasn't…
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U-Turn On Global Warming? Hardly
Wall Street Journal: U-Turn On Global Warming? Hardly by Bjorn Lomborg Being skeptical of Al Gore's solution doesn't make me a 'denier.' After years of being accused of believing something I didn't believe—or, more accurately, not believing something I really did—I made headlines last month for changing my mind even though I hadn't. Confused? Imagine…
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Bjørn Lomborg: $100bn a year needed to fight climate change
Guardian: Bjørn Lomborg: $100bn a year needed to fight climate change Exclusive 'Skeptical Environmentalist' and critic of climate scientists to declare global warming a chief concern facing world. The world's most high-profile climate change sceptic is to declare that global warming is "undoubtedly one of the chief concerns facing the world today" and "a challenge…
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Post-Copenhagen quest for global warming accord stuck in reverse
Christian Science Monitor: Post-Copenhagen quest for global warming accord stuck in reverse Negotiators seeking to lay the groundwork for a global warming summit in Mexico in November appear to be moving further from consensus. With 3-1/2 months left before a United Nations climate summit in Cancun, Mexico, the spade work ahead of the meeting seems…
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Climate Fears Turn to Doubts Among Britons
New York Times: Climate Fears Turn to Doubts Among Britons LONDON — Last month hundreds of environmental activists crammed into an auditorium here to ponder an anguished question: If the scientific consensus on climate change has not changed, why have so many people turned away from the idea that human activity is warming the planet?…
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Increased Number Think Global Warming Is “Exaggerated”
Gallup: Increased Number Think Global Warming Is "Exaggerated" PRINCETON, NJ — Although a majority of Americans believe the seriousness of global warming is either correctly portrayed in the news or underestimated, a record-high 41% now say it is exaggerated. This represents the highest level of public skepticism about mainstream reporting on global warming seen in…