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'Seven years to climate midnight'

Posted on August 28, 2008

By Joseph RommThe uber-centrist Brookings Institution joins the climate alarmist realist crowd. President Strobe Talbott and VP for foreign policy studies Carlos Pascual explain in a Washington Post op-ed: The world may have only seven years to start reducing the annual buildup in greenhouse gas emissions that otherwise threatens global catastrophe within several decades. The politics are a little bland for my taste, but that's to be expected from Brookings, which has moved closer and closer to the center in recent years. The whole piece is worth reading, if only to see just how far ...

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