On July 17, Al Gore challenged our nation to produce " 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly carbon-free sources within 10 years ". Ron Bailey , science correspondent of Reason online , has examined whether Gore's proposal is at all practically achievable. Bailey...
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TokyoTom
on Wed, Jul 30 2008
Filed under: rent-seeking, republicans, gore, war, AGW, Ron Bailey, carbon pricing, climate change, nuclear
Here's a very interesting piece by Kristof at the New York Times about the reactions of Obama and Clinton supporters, and introducing cognitive science studies of why more information often polarizes, rather than bringing people together . Divided They Fall Simply, we are cognitively wired as tribal...
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on Thu, Apr 17 2008
Filed under: rent-seeking, tribalism, Enviro Derangement Syndrome, cognition, climate change