James Hansen , a leading climate scientist at NASA (head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies) and Columbia University , last week`published a scathing criticism of the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill in the Huffington Post , and Bob Murphy noticed . Bob offers a rather schizophenic view...
Joe Romm `s defense of Waxman-Markey against climate scientist James Hansen (who prefers rebated carbon taxes and a faster phase-out of coal) is effective and worth a read. Notably, however, Romm makes no attempt to justify all of the pork now in the bill, including the huge subsidies to coal (Congressman...