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Is 450 ppm politically possible? Part 6: What the Boxer-Lieberman-Warner bill debate tells us

Posted on June 29, 2008

No, 450 is not politically possible today.OK, that was clear before. But the debate over the Climate Security Act made clear it won't be politically possible anytime soon, for two reasons:The vast majority of conservatives have not budged an inch on climate science even in the face of now overwhelming direct scientific observation and a much deeper and broader scientific understanding of the dangerous impact of unrestricted human greenhouse gas emissions on the climate.Equally important, conservatives now have a very potent political issue to beat back advocates of an economy-wide cap & trade...

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