The correct sources of the quotations posted with this update: | |
| 1. "It is a badly flawed piece of public policy .... The Waxman-Markey bill may be the best bill the political system can produce, and surely it is far preferable to doing nothing .... It's not too late to change our minds [and opt instead for carbon taxes or "a tough new regulatory regime."] | D. Washington Post business columnist Steven Pearlstein, May 22, 2009. |
| 2. "I'm trying to make clear what the connection is between the science and the policy .... Somebody has to do it .... This particular problem has become an emergency." | F. Attributed to NASA/GISS Director James Hansen By writer Elizabeth Kolbert in The New Yorker, June 29, 2009. |
| 3. "If we expect the Chinese and Indians and others to embrace an international system for reducing these gases, we must be the leader" ... "we will no longer be preaching temperance from a barstool." | B. Rep Edward Markey (D-Mass), quoted in David Farenthold Washington Post article, "Caps, Trades, and Offsets: Can Climate Plan Work?," May 26, 2009. |
| 4. "If man can walk on the moon, we can unite to defeat our common carbon enemy." | C. Mohamed Nasheed, the Maldives' president, in New York Times magazine, May 10, 2009. |
| 5. "The gulf between the countries of the industrialized world and what is usually referred to as the developing world is, if anything, growing, or at least solidifying." | A. Attributed to Harvard University Economist Robert Stavins by Reporter Jeff Tollefson in "Climate Talks Snarled Up," published online June 16,2009. |
| 6. "We're at the point where we desparately need some higher-level leadership to get this process going." | E. Attributed to World Wildlife Fund's Keya Chatterjee, deputy director for climate change, by Reporter Jeff Tollefson in "Climate Talks Snarled Up," published online June 16,2009. |
June 25, 2009