Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Open letter to a climate change convert | Grist
Reaching either target, 450 or 350, would require enormous changes in the global industrial base. Imagine the extraordinary mobilization of U.S. industrial resources in the run-up to WWII. Now imagine that level of mobilization, coordinated across all the world's countries, sustained for a century. That's the scale of the challenge.
Two Views of Climate Cause and Effect - NYTimes.com
[In Joe Romm's world, US voters are eager to pay a large global warming hoax tax] A dozen polls that I have posted and reposted countless times (see the cap-and-trade post) make clear the public supports strong climate action almost no matter how you phrase it — even in the depths of the recession — certainly throughout 2009 and 2010.

Again, the fact that the bill passed the House is a reflection of the broad public support.

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