Tuesday, April 10, 2007
The Douglas-Douglas Debate [Jim Manzi]
Newt seems to have a more sensible position on global warming than Kerry, but this debate sure wasn’t his best day.
I think the root of Newt’s problem was that he implicitly agreed not just that humans have impacted global temperatures, but that we are on the verge of a global disaster that demands immediate, radical action. Once he had conceded this unsupportable premise, he was then reduced to arguing that his “market-based, technological” approach could address the crisis faster and better than a cap-and-trade system for carbon.
04/10 04:32 PM
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