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The Groupthink Global InitiativeI thought of you Andre. You don't seem to be the only one focused on the groupthink issue.
The Groupthink Global Initiative
By Alvaro Vargas Llosa : BIO| 04 Oct 2007
| Quote: | NEW YORK -- One would expect some diversity of opinion at a gathering of heads of government, CEOs and nonprofit organizations from different sides of the political spectrum. That was not the case at the Clinton Global Initiative meeting last week, devoted mostly to climate change. From the CEO of Duke Energy Corp. to the president of the Natural Resources Defense Council to Al Gore, everyone agreed on the need for draconian limits on carbon emissions worldwide. The proposals varied from taxes on a carbon "cap and trade" system, but the assumptions on which they were all basing them were the same -- and they seem somewhat premature. No one was too concerned with the costs that a blanket limit on emissions worldwide could inflict on millions of desperate people trying to pull themselves out of poverty.
The main assumption was that most of the warming has been caused by rising levels of carbon dioxide. But scientists have not yet reached a consensus on that. The average temperature has risen a bit less than 1 degree Celsius in the last 100 years. While greenhouse gases have risen substantially since the 1950s, half of the warming took place in the early half of the 20th century -- according to professor Phil Jones of the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia, in a study titled "Global Temperature Record." |
http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=100207A
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