Topic: Ted Nordhaus

Thinkers take liberalism apart in order to save it

0 . Two Bay Area liberals roiled environmentalists in 2004 with a searing, 36-page treatise, "The Death of Environmentalism," which said modern ...
Geoengineering solutions to global warming are receiving ever more attention, and for good reason. But if you believe, like Al Gore does, that we only have a decade to act before we do irreversible damage to our environment, then it seems irresponsible ...

Emissions-based climate deal 'not possible'

Current climate policy of emissions targets and trading will not suceed and should be replaced by a 'politically attractive' one based on providing cheap, non-carbon energy, says new paper. Writing in a paper funded in part by the London School of Economics ...

Book Review: Climate Change and Can We Stop It?

, $25.00 What We Know About Climate Change by Kerry Emanuel MIT Press, 85 pp. The authors of the first two books under review have some doubts about a strategy that emphasizes limits on carbon emissions, Lomborg for economic reasons and Nordhaus ...

Environmentalism Hasn't Died

Michael Shellenberger, a self-described political strategist, has launched a campaign to have Andrew Jackson replaced on the twenty-dollar bill with Martin Luther King, Jr. Shellenberger, now the executive director of the Breakthrough Institute and co-founder of the Apollo Alliance, has set the ...
IN THE debate over global warming, many have claimed to have found a middle ground and charted a third way between the extremes of denialism on the one hand and utter despair on the other. Meanwhile, US environmental renegades Michael Shellenberger and ...