Blake Hounshell at ForeignPolicy.com has a succinct answer to people who don’t think binding targets are necessary in climate policy: this graph, which shows patent applications on sulphur control technologies in the US. Guess what happened in 1970 and 1971?
Let’s make climate a culture war!
If the politics of climate change end up polarised, is that so bad? No – it’s disastrous. Or so I’ve long thought. Look at the US – where climate is even more polarised than abortion. Result: decades of flip flopping. Ambition under Clinton; reversal...