{"id":138,"date":"2010-11-29T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T13:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/markets\/?p=138"},"modified":"2010-11-29T06:42:07","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T11:42:07","slug":"two-proposals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/markets\/2010\/11\/29\/two-proposals\/","title":{"rendered":"Two proposals and a reality check"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2010\/11\/28\/opinion\/28oped_climate\/28oped_climate-popup.jpg\" alt=\"by Mikel Jaso\" width=\"234\" height=\"232\" \/>Yesterday&#8217;s <em>New York Times<\/em> published three terrific op-eds worth a second thought.<\/p>\n<p>Veerabhadran Ramanathan and David Victor argue that, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/28\/opinion\/28victor.html\">To Fight Climate Change, Clear the Air<\/a>.&#8221; Carbon is the main climate culprit, but we can&#8217;t ignore and might as well start with tackling the other greenhouse gas pollutants.<\/p>\n<p>Bruce Usher argues that, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/28\/opinion\/28usher.html\">On Global Warming, Start Small<\/a>.&#8221; Not too small, mind you. Individual volunteerism won&#8217;t do. But U.S. energy policy is made in the states, and many states are making significant progress on sensible policy measures.<\/p>\n<p>Jack Hedin provides &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/28\/opinion\/28hedin.html\">An Almanac of Extreme Weather<\/a>&#8221; from his Minnesota family farm and an important wake-up call for why we are doing what we doing. In the end, &#8220;climate instability&#8221;\u2014the extreme fluctuations around a warming climate\u2014may prove at least as damaging as the slow but steady upward trend in temperatures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three prescient New York Times op-eds on what&#8217;s at stake and how to cope with an increasingly unstable climate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":850,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9532,16683,330],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-science","category-international-agreement","category-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Two proposals and a reality check - Market Forces<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/markets\/2010\/11\/29\/two-proposals\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Two proposals and a reality check - 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