Kathryn Jean Lopez on Alaska Drilling on National Review Online:
"McCain, Lieberman, Warner and everyone else should take a deep breath and listen to Bjorn Lomborg, author of Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming, who says the legislation before Congress “looks set to be a massive subsidy-fest that would achieve very little for the environment, at great cost.” He warns: “Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.”
Lomborg says that instead of frenzied regulations and expenditures, “We need the technological solutions that will allow our societies to transition cost-effectively to low-carbon energy by mid-century. McCain could recognize that this is a century-long problem which needs century-long, smart solutions.”
In other words — cool it. Drop the gimmicks. Stop getting freaked out by Al Gore. Let’s be smart and think creatively rather than as a herd of panicked sheep."
Very little distinction exists between the climate conformists on either side of the border. Practical conservation, which any farm family learned and practiced a hundred years ago, is eclipsed by city-slicker solutions that read like plot lines from the old television show, Green Acres. Eva Gabor may have been Al Gore's most influential 'new media' mentor.
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