Cap-and-trade opponents sound like 6-year old Calvin complaining about cleaning his room

If businesses affected by global warming legislation would shut up, stop whining, and get to work cleaning up their act, they'd probably find that it wasn't as bad or expensive as they thought.

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Assuming that we can engineer Nature to fit our lifestyles doesn't make Levitt and Dubner courageous geniuses. Although Bill Waterson certainly is one.

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For climate change Blog Action Day today, here is the only thing you need to know about global warming:

We’re doing something major to our planet. Something not done in at least 400,000 years – and likely not in the last 15 million. No matter what you think about global warming, you have to admit: it’s hard to believe that CO2 can reach these unprecedented levels without something big happening. I don’t want to find out what that is.

At the beginning of the above graph, humans were deciding whether to be homo erectus or homo sapiens. Today we’ve got another big decision to make about whether we will advance as a species.

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