Climatide

This essay by William Nordhaus, a Yale University economist, is making its way through my Twitter stream this morning with the intro “if you read one thing about climate change this week, it should be this.” I certainly hope you read more than one thing about climate change this week, but this is a great rebuttal to six major arguments often raised by skeptics.

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• Source: Nybooks

The threat of climate change is an increasingly important environmental issue for the globe. Because the economic questions involved have received relatively little attention, I have been writing a nontechnical book for people who would like to see how market-based approaches could be used to formulate policy on climate change.

Read more at: www.nybooks.com

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