First, is the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/04/science/earth/04clima.html"at risk of becoming irrelevant/a? If so, does it need to start offering specific climate-control prescriptions?br /br /Second, how green, really, is “cash for clunkers”? Or similar programs for older household appliances? a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/03/AR2009080302220.html"Not very/a, at bottom line.br /br /Third, even as the neoliberal Waxman-Markey plan has yet to start consideration in the U.S. Senate, and may not even meet watered-down U.S. carbon-dioxide targets, the nation has another carbon problem — a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090804/sc_nm/us_usa_forests_beetle_3"beetle infestation in western forests/a, making them less and less of a “carbon sink.”div class="blogger-post-footer"There is no god and I am his prophet.img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7532871-8531889005248699308?l=socraticgadfly.blogspot.com'//div
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