{"id":529797,"date":"2010-04-16T12:16:01","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T16:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/?p=7654"},"modified":"2010-04-16T12:16:01","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T16:16:01","slug":"brad-delong%e2%80%99s-prescription-for-battling-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/529797","title":{"rendered":"Brad DeLong\u2019s Prescription for Battling Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/v1\/img\/cat\/policy.png\" width=\"8\" height=\"8\" alt=\"\" title=\"Policy\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Economics blogger Bradford J. DeLong <a href=\"http:\/\/delong.typepad.com\/\">has posted a plea<\/a> for national governments (hat tip, FT\u2019s Energy Source) to act on climate change after the Copenhagen talks fell apart.<\/p>\n<p>DeLong apparently is not one of those who believes that Copenhagen could actually turn out to be a success.<\/p>\n<p>DeLong has a simple, four-point plan that cuts right to the heart of the issue. The first and second suggestions are plausible but politically difficult. The third and fourth proposals will not fly, now or ever. See them after the jump.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-7654\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; Pour money like water into research into closed-carbon and non-carbon energy technologies in order to maximize the chance that we will get lucky\u2014on energy technologies at least, if not on climate sensitivity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Beg the rulers of China and India to properly understand their long-term interests<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Nationalize the energy industry in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Restrict future climate negotiations to a group of seven\u2014the U.S., the E.U., Japan, China, India, Indonesia, and Brazil\u2014and enforce their agreement by substantial and painful trade sanctions on countries that do not accept their place in the resulting negotiated system.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GreenEnergyReporter\/~4\/zj9s3MByN1Q\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economics blogger Bradford J. DeLong has posted a plea for national governments (hat tip, FT\u2019s Energy Source) to act on climate change after the Copenhagen talks fell apart. DeLong apparently is not one of those who believes that Copenhagen could actually turn out to be a success. DeLong has a simple, four-point plan that cuts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":854,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/854"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}