Friday, November 9, 2012

Will Storm's Wall Street Impact Influence U.S. Climate Policy?

New York Times: I encourage you to read Tina Rosenberg`s Fixes post, "A Change in the Weather on Wall Street." The piece nicely summarizes why this storm, unlike other recent weather disasters with a climate-change component, has prompted so many politicians, including President Obama, to end their self-imposed silence on global warming. One reason, she writes, is that it disrupted the lives of Wall Street titans along with the common folk in the region. That cut through the reality of the rich-poor "climate...

URL: http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/08/will-storms-wall-street-impact-influence-u-s-carbon-policy/?partner=rss&emc=rss

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