April 11, 2005
Carnival of the Capitalists
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I'd also like to recommend Tim Worstall's post on Global Warming. It starts off pretty well,
Regular readers will know that I take roughly the Lomborg view of Global Warming. That it is happening, that we are causing at least part of it, that us causing that part comes partly from fossil fuel and partly from land use changes, that we don’t actually have to do all that much about it and that Kyoto is the most expensive piece of nonsense yet proposed about anything.
I don't know much about the technological advancements Tim discusses, but it is an interesting point and one I don't usually see in discussion of Global Warming.
Posted by Steve at April 11, 2005 09:37 AM | TrackBackSounds like a deus ex machina 'solution,' which likely will not be timely enough to do what this writer thinks it will, even if it does so eventually.
That doesn't make it necessarily worse as a solution for atmospheric CO2 increase reduction than the Kyoto Treaty protocols, which themselves will have nearly to no effect on that measure, either.
The more frank boosters of the Kyoto Treaty admit it is primarily a symbolic step of global cooperation and recognizing the problem, rather than much of a solution, per se.
Posted by: sofla on April 11, 2005 02:41 PMI think the key problems with Kyoto are first, that it's a placebo and second, there's still little justification for CO2 reduction over building the global economy.
