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Should We Talk About the Weather?

Category: Global Warming and Hurricanes
Posted on: September 10, 2008 1:15 PM, by Chris C. Mooney

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[Ike gathering strength in the Gulf.]

With Hurricane Ike on course to--probably--slam Texas as a serious hurricane, I address my latest Science Progress column to the question of whether we can, defensibly, discuss global warming during hurricane season. My basic answer: Yes, but it's probably better to use other messages, particularly economic ones ("Green Jobs").

You can read the full piece here.

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Hi Chris, good to see this post and the link to your SP piece - thanks. For those readers not based in the UK you may not have heard of these two documents which both have something to say about the Green Jobs business.

From the TUC (Trades Union Congress) A Green and Fair Future: For a Just Transition to a Low Carbon Economy available here http://www.tuc.org.uk/publications/srchResults.cfm And this from the nef (New Economics Foundation) A Green New Deal here http://www.neweconomics.org/gen/z_sys_publications.aspx

Cheers

Douglas Coker
Enfield Green Party
UK

Posted by: Douglas Coker | September 12, 2008 11:24 AM