In an earlier Corner post replying to Jonah, I promised that I would explain my highly negative reaction to the current Scientific American cover story on 'The Ethics of Climate Change.' It is now up in two parts at Planet Gore. The second is focused on the specific question of the use of discounting in evaluating climate policies. Warning: in the prior post I promised 'much more' on this topic, and I delivered on quantity.
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03-26
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“Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back.” ~Harvey MacKayTime is and always has b...
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04-13
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Global Warming seems to be in the main stream media every day now. Despite the threats of melting ice shelves resulting in mass flooding, and temperatures that will destroy the earth environment as we...
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01-25
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Image by Matthias ScholzWe’re not suggesting that global warming is going to be all puppies and rainbows. Climate change is a serious issue with potentially disastrous consequences for the entire huma...
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2007
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这是来自KJ Global，去年从三星公司产品的灵感中研制出来的光电鼠标，看上去有些大（我承认，三星的产品看起来更可爱）。这款G4型号厚度只有5毫米，折叠后是53毫米。当折叠后，它看起来更加的神奇，有...
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02-22
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Hundreds of years ago Ghengis Khan led a thundering horde of Mongolian horsemen across Asia and into Europe, conquering nearly everything in his path in a quest for world domination.A traditional Mong...
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03-04
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Is global warming a myth or a fact? Or is the entire term misleading and should climate change by the phrase of choice instead? The site 42Explore provides a great introduction to the issue of global ...
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01-10
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Well, it has been a long time since my last post here. So many topics, so little time. Some talks, a couple of Design Issues articles, but no blog posts.To dissipate the worry of expectation of qualit...
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03-14
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The Hot Topic: How to Tackle Global Warming and Still Keep the Lights Onby Gabrielle Walker & Sir David King Bloomsbury: 2008. 309 pp. £9.99The Hot Topic opens with a bang: "We aim to tell y...
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03-27
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Global Warming Could Radically Change Lake Tahoe In Ten Years A new UC Davis study predicts that climate change will irreversibly alter water circulation in Lake Tahoe, radically changing the condit...
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09-14
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Man in Worcestershire Now Says He Shot His Neighbor Because He Wasn’t Recycling Duncan Verbyl-Sparring, accused of killing his neighbor Boo Radley last year with a rake, has entered a revised plea of ...
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