Monthly Archives: April 2008

Science and morals for… markets

Center for American Progress Advisor Sally Steenland (whom I have spoken with personally and regard highly) is arguing that Barack and Hillary should talk about science at the upcoming “Compassion Forum” at Messiah College in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. In her mind, they ought to address scientific and moral problems as one. She refers to these ruminative [...]

Techno-fix versus carbon cut

Andrew Revkin explained yesterday how he thinks the climate debate has become “a lot more complicated”. Revkin is now framing the serious part of the debate as a conflict between those who believe that capping greenhouse gas emissions will be good enough, and those who believe the solution lies, as Revkin puts it, in “radically [...]