global warming news - Ambrose: Watch Obama closely on global warming - Daily News Tribune

In Poland recently, representatives of the European Union were discussing ways to look like soldiers in the war against global warming while once more dodging the draft, and outside there were the usual sorts of doomsday-prognosticating protesters. A voice of wisdom on the issue is that of William Nordhaus, a Yale economics professor who says the best means to avoid throwing trillions of dollars away to little avail is a coordinated, phased-in program of carbon taxes for the whole world. Hooey, says Bjorn Lomborg, a Copenhagen statistician who has written that sea levels were rising long before the recent warming, that many coastlines in the world have been getting larger, that soil moisture has been increasing in the world, that recent famines have much to do with land taken to produce corn for ethanol and that total hurricane force has been on the decrease since 2005. Or maybe he was listening to the host of the gubernatorial pow-wow, Arnold Schwarzenegger, the governor of California who recently said on "60 Minutes" that anyone who didn't accept his version of global warming also must believe in a flat Earth. The whole consensus thing is a myth, at least if what you mean by consensus is widespread scientific agreement that human-induced warming is sure to destroy the planet in the absence of prompt, decisive action. Nobel Prize hero Gore says differently, but then his movie was rife with errors, his own Tennessee house was a kind of coal-fired plant in hiding and his willingness to listen to other views was amply illustrated by his 1993 role as vice president in booting Will Happer from his Energy Department job as director of research.

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