Money Spent On Carbon Cuts Is Money

Wishful Thinking Is Not Sound Public Policy.

We Worry About The Seemingly Ever-increasing Number Of Natural Catastrophes. Yet This Is Mainly A Consequence Of Cnn - We See Many More, But The Number Is Roughly Constant, And We Manage To Deal Much Better With Them Over Time. Globally, The Death Rate From Catastrophes Has Dropped About Fifty-fold Over The Past Century.

Think On A 50-year Scale, Which Is A Much More Natural Time-scale For Global Warming. The Us Is Right Now Spending About 200 Million Dollars Annually On Research Into Renewable Energy.

We Need To Invest Dramatically In Green Energy, Making Solar Panels So Cheap That Everybody Wants Them. Nobody Wanted To Buy A Computer In 1950, But Once They Got Cheap, Everyone Bought Them.

We've Had The U.n. For Almost 60 Years, Yet We've Never Actually Made A Fundamental List Of All The Big Things That We Can Do In The World, And Said, 'which Of Them Should We Do First?'