Why Reform Conservatives' Climate Policy Prescriptions Still Fall Short

"The Guardian: John Oliver's Viral Video Is The Best Climate Debate You'll Ever See"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-guardian-john-olivers-viral-video.html

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"By endorsing subsidies for basic energy research, the reformist conservatives are (at least implicitly) accepting the validity of climate science, as well as the possibility of some government role in limiting the threat of climate change. And yet, even though they have moved a fair distance from mindless Republican climate orthodoxy...one obvious problem is that they present basic energy research as something close to a miracle cure — why spend tens or hundreds of billions of dollars complying with caps on greenhouse-gas emissions when instead we can spend a fraction of the sum on cool science?" Jonathan Chait in New York Magazine.