Nurturing the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Pit

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The latest member of our blog team (Alex Vondette, yay!!!), dredged up this Amy Ridenour post from earlier this month, another infuriating example of the circular argument that serves to promote paralysis in climate change policyย making.

The argument โ€“ typical of the dissemblers โ€“ is that climate change isnโ€™t real; and if it is real, Kyoto is a pointlessly inadequate response. Ergo, anyone who argues inย favour of its implementation is a champagne swilling liberal environmentalist living off the avails of carefully peer-reviewed government researchย grants.

Some of the foregoing actually makes sense. Kyoto is a hopelessly inadequate response to climate change:ย but, as the saying goes, the first thing to do when youโ€™re trying to get out of a pit is to stopย digging.

No one is arguing that this is easy, and no one is arguing that Kyoto will be enough. We just hope, as a first order of business, thatย George Bush and company will stop handing outย shovels.

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