Act now with clean energy or face 6 degrees warming

Grist by Joseph Romm | Jun. 9, 2008 (Advocacy)

When the normally conservative International Energy Agency (IEA) agrees with both the middle of the road IPCC and more ... progressive voices like mine, it should be time for the world to get very serious, very fast on the clean energy transition. But when the media blows the story, the public and policymakers may miss the key messages of the stunning new IEA report, "Energy Technology Perspectives, 2008" (executive summary here).

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Topics: Energy, Global Warming, Climate Change
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Posted by: Posted by Fabrice Florin - Jun 9, 2008 - 1:06 PM PDT
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 by Dwight Rousu - Jun. 10, 2008

The contribution of the article is pointing out that big corporate media only focused upon the cost of addressing global climate change, and ignored the costs of not addressing global climate change. Also, the costs were not presented as a percent of the economy, just a big number.

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 by Mike LaBonte - Jun. 9, 2008

The IEA report is quoted accurately, as is the mainstream news articles that misrepresent the IEA report. Great article for the hard to find information that it provides.

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