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New York Times by Nicholas D. Kristof | Apr. 21, 2008 (Opinion)

the next president should start a $20 billion-a-year program (financed by a pullout from Iraq) to develop new energy technologies, backed by a carbon tax and cap-and-trade system. Each of the presidential candidates favors some form of a cap-and-trade and would mark a step forward from President Bush's passivity -- although John McCain's recent proposal for a summer holiday from the gas tax would be a deplorable step in exactly the wrong direction, unless ... Full Story »

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by Terry Mazanec - Oct. 1, 2008

Kristof is clueless about both global warming and the potential solutions. As a 30 year veteran of energy R&D there are no easy solutions, and government money won't create any. And we should consider global warming for what it has become, a leftist political agenda item rather than anything with scientific credibility. After all, if the rise in T over the past 125 years is due to CO2, how could the T have dropped drastically from 1945 to 1975, while CO2 increased steadily? Apparently the forces that caused the T decline are more significant than CO2.