{"id":3739,"date":"2010-04-11T13:16:01","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T18:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/?p=3739"},"modified":"2010-07-27T10:17:16","modified_gmt":"2010-07-27T15:17:16","slug":"krugman-weighs-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/archives\/2010\/04\/krugman-weighs-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Krugman weighs in"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"kcite-section\" kcite-section-id=\"3739\">\n<p>After weeks and months of press coverage seemingly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/archives\/2010\/04\/climate-scientist-bashing\/\">Through the Looking Glass<\/a>, Paul Krugman has sent us a breath of fresh air this morning in the New York Times Magazine, entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/11\/magazine\/11Economy-t.html?pagewanted=1\">Building a Green Economy<\/a>&#8220;.  Krugman now joins fellow NYT columnist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hot-Flat-Crowded-2-0-Revolution\/dp\/0312428928\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1270999838&#038;sr=8-1\">Tom Friedman<\/a> as required reading in my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/view_play_list?p=FA75A0DDB89ACCD7\">Global Warming for English Majors<\/a> class at the University of Chicago.    <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There is a lot here to comment on and discuss.  The extinctions at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/archives\/2009\/08\/petm-weirdness\/\">Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum<\/a>, for example, were mostly limited to foraminfera, single-celled shelly protozoa living at the sea floor, not really a &#8220;mass extinction&#8221; like the end Cretaceous when the dinosaurs got feathered.  The Gulf Stream is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/05\/gulf-stream-slowdown\/\">not the only thing<\/a> keeping Northern Europe warmer than Alaska.  Krugman&#8217;s four reasons why it&#8217;s dubious to compare costs of climate mitigation to adaption didn&#8217;t include the unfairness, that the people paying the costs of climate change would not be the same ones as reap the benefit of CO<sub>2<\/sub> emission.  He also seems to have missed the recent revelation that what really matters to climate is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/archives\/2009\/04\/hit-the-brakes-hard\/\">total ultimate slug of emitted CO<sub>2<\/sub><\/a>, implying that unfettered emission today dooms us to more drastic cuts in the future or a higher ultimate atmospheric CO<sub>2<\/sub> concentration, which will persist not just for &#8220;possibly centuries&#8221;, but almost certainly for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/archives\/2009\/02\/irreversible-does-not-mean-unstoppable\/\">millennia<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>But despite a few off-notes, reading this very nicely written, beautifully laid out and argued piece felt like getting a deep sympathetic body massage after a bruising boxing match.  Thank you, Mr. Krugman.  <\/p>\n<!-- kcite active, but no citations found -->\n<\/div> <!-- kcite-section 3739 -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After weeks and months of press coverage seemingly Through the Looking Glass, Paul Krugman has sent us a breath of fresh air this morning in the New York Times Magazine, entitled &#8220;Building a Green Economy&#8220;. 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