What If McCain Had Been President? And Other Climate What-Ifs | The New Republic

New Republic by Bradford Plumer | Jul. 24, 2010 (Opinion)

Did a climate bill ever have a chance to squeak through Congress? Could anything have saved it? Politico's Darren Samuelsohn has a piece today about the usual, tiresome round of recriminations among greens after Harry Reid killed cap-and-trade. (Okay, technically Reid's putting it off until after August recess, but the odds of survival are grim.) The underlying question, though, is a good one: Peering back over the past two years, there were a few pivot ... Full Story »

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Subjects: World, U.S., Politics, Sci/Tech
Topics: Presidential Election 2008, U.S. Congress, John McCain, Climate Change
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Posted by: Posted by Derek Hawkins - Jul 24, 2010 - 7:28 AM PDT
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This opinion piece is poor journalism. The author presents a rambling series of personal opinions, but never even mentions the key fact of this issue: the climate science is nowhere near ready to support "cap and trade" or any other measure. Climate models are poor and have not improved in uncertainty in 20 years, and the data are in bad shape (see surfacestations.org for details on this for the U.S.). He also makes the remarkable claim that the recession would have deepened without the stimulus, when every economic analysis says that the stimulus made things worse.

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