From The Heritage Foundation and the Hudson Institute:
Natural Resources, Energy, Environment, & Science
History, Ideology, and U.S. Climate Policy: Beyond the Orthodoxies of Left and Right
by Lee Lane
Hudson Institute
December 13, 2011
Instead of demanding rigorous climate policy analysis, U.S. political leaders tend to cling to the dogmas of either the right or the left. Such rigorous analysis would probe the forces that have defeated or, worse, perverted, greenhouse gas (GHG) controls. It would explore other ways of lessening the risks of climate change and examine how the factors that have brought GHG control efforts to naught would affect these other strategies. Finally, it would scrutinize how major global trends might affect both climate change and the measures intended to counter it. Climate change does pose risks, yet those risks do not imply that massive social engineering for GHG control is either possible or desirable. As awareness of this reality sinks in among public intellectuals, a more serious policy discourse is likely to emerge.
URL: www.hudson.org/files/publications/LeeLaneClimatePolicyDec2011.pdf
Natural Resources, Energy, Environment, & Science
History, Ideology, and U.S. Climate Policy: Beyond the Orthodoxies of Left and Right
by Lee Lane
Hudson Institute
December 13, 2011
Instead of demanding rigorous climate policy analysis, U.S. political leaders tend to cling to the dogmas of either the right or the left. Such rigorous analysis would probe the forces that have defeated or, worse, perverted, greenhouse gas (GHG) controls. It would explore other ways of lessening the risks of climate change and examine how the factors that have brought GHG control efforts to naught would affect these other strategies. Finally, it would scrutinize how major global trends might affect both climate change and the measures intended to counter it. Climate change does pose risks, yet those risks do not imply that massive social engineering for GHG control is either possible or desirable. As awareness of this reality sinks in among public intellectuals, a more serious policy discourse is likely to emerge.
URL: www.hudson.org/files/publications/LeeLaneClimatePolicyDec2011.pdf
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