Friday, February 24, 2012

"Frenzied Pursuit Of Decarbonization At Any Cost"

  There has been a great series of op-eds in the Wall Street Journal regarding the seriousness of man-made climate change. The most recent piece by Claude Allegre and about a dozen other highly-regarded scientists and engineers was in the WSJ on  February 21.   This final paragraph sums up their position nicely:
The computer-model predictions of alarming global warming have seriously exaggerated the warming by CO2 and have underestimated other causes. Since CO2 is not a pollutant but a substantial benefit to agriculture, and since its warming potential has been greatly exaggerated, it is time for the world to rethink its frenzied pursuit of decarbonization at any cost.
If you visit the Wall Street Journal article that's in this post, you can find links to the original op-ed, and the counter opinions that were published by the Journal.

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