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Steve Rayner: Dear Mr. President, Deal with Climate Change

Posted on October 02, 2008

Steve Rayner, climate policy expert and lead author of The Wrong Trousers: Radically Rethinking Climate Policy (PDF), is featured in this month's Wired Magazine. He's on the 2008 Smart List: 15 People the Next President Should Listen To (no matter who wins). Read this carefully, for Rayner is onto something. He declares that cap and trade won't work and that new technology investment is critical. Here is Professor Rayner's letter:Mr. President:The outgoing administration failed to come to grips with climate change out of fear that reducing greenhouse gas emissions would damage the economy....

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