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The Question of Global Warming - The New York Review of Books

Two views of global warming are presented, one by the economist, Nordhaus and the other presented by Yale Center, Zedillo. Dyson believes that both books miss that environmentalism has become secular religion with a rift when considering what is the greatest threat to the planet.

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This fact, that the exchange of carbon between atmosphere and vegetation is rapid, is of fundamental importance to the long-range future of global warming,
William Nordhaus is a professional economist, and his book A Question of Balance: Weighing the Options on Global Warming Policies describes the global-warming problem as an econ-omist sees it.
His conclusions are largely independent of scientific details.
Everything is calculated by running a single computer model which he calls DICE, an acronym for Dynamic Integrated Model of Climate and the Economy.
He believes that the most important concern of any policy that aims to address climate change should be how to set the most efficient "carbon price," which he defines as "the market price or penalty that would be paid by those who use fossil fuels and thereby generate CO₂ emissions."
To a first approximation, raising the price of carbon is a necessary and sufficient step for tackling global warming.
should pursue the following objectives in order of priority. (1) Avoid the ambitious proposals. (2) Develop the science and technology for a low-cost backstop. (3) Negotiate an international treaty coming as close as possible to the optimal policy, in case the low-cost backstop fails. (4) Avoid an international treaty making the Kyoto Protocol policy permanent.
He does not wish to question the pronouncements of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of hundreds of scientists officially appointed by the United Nations to give scientific advice to governments.
does not believe in low-cost backstops
It is likely that biotechnology will dominate our lives and our economic activities during the second half of the twenty-first century,
Biotechnology could be a great equalizer, spreading wealth over the world wherever there is land and air and water and sunlight.
Global Warming: Looking Beyond Kyoto is the record of a conference held at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization in 2005. It is edited by Ernesto Zedillo,
Zedillo book covers a much wider range of topics and opinions than the Nordhaus book, and is addressed to a wider circle of readers.
n the history of science it has often happened that the majority was wrong and refused to listen to a minority that later turned out to be right. It may—or may not—be that the present is such a time.
books under review, miss the main point. The main point is religious rather than scientific.
There is a worldwide secular religion which we may call environmentalism, holding that we are stewards of the earth, that despoiling the planet with waste products of our luxurious living is a sin, and that the path of righteousness is to live as frugally as possible.
Environmentalism has replaced socialism as the leading secular religion.
Unfortunately, some members of the environmental movement have also adopted as an article of faith the be-lief that global warming is the greatest threat to the ecology of our planet.
Many of the skeptics are passionate environmentalists
distracting public attention from what they see as more serious and more immediate dangers to the planet, including problems of nuclear weaponry, environmental degradation, and social injustice.

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