Word: nordhaus
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...orthodox faith that Kyoto Protocol-style mandatory carbon cuts are the best way to save the planet. Call them the bad boys of environmentalism: gadflies like the Danish economist Bjorn Lomborg, who just came out with the book Cool It, and rebel greens like the political consultants Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, who detail their apostasy in Break Through. While their solutions may be flawed, the questions these contrarians raise about climate change are central as we shift into the next and more difficult phase in the debate: what should be done about...
...carbon offsetting in the developing world. While UN action on climate change remains stalled by the deadlock between the developed and the developing world, Clinton has proved remarkably successful in fostering real engagement and investment on global warming across national lines. "Clinton just really gets it," says Ted Nordhaus, co-author of the new environmental politics book Break Through...
...President continued to reject Kyoto-style mandatory caps on carbon emissions and instead endorsed an "international clean technology fund" to finance alternative energy projects in developing nations. Nice idea, but meaningless without real spending to back it up. "Bush says we need technology, but spends no money," says Nordhaus. "Bush says we need to reduce emissions, but only voluntarily. Both positions are utterly cynical...
...says the senior intelligence official. "The last person who tried was [former chief economic aide to the President] Larry Lindsey, and he lost his job." Lindsey had estimated the total cost of war would be $100 billion to $200 billion. In one much quoted analysis, economist William Nordhaus of Yale University has said that the cost of war and reconstruction over a decade could range from a low of $100 billion to a high of $1.9 trillion. At current prices, that would make an Iraq war second only to World War II in its financial impact on Americans...