by pragprogress
Last week, members of the historic Oxford Union Society, "the world’s premier debating society", held a debate on climate change policy, with skeptics carrying the day by a vote of 135 to 110. Some may argue that the debate was a bit "stacked" given that it was sponsored by the Science and Public Policy Institute, an organization whose mission statement includes the following: The Institute urges critical appraisal of legislative "climate fixes" for their social, political, and economic and security costs, along with their relative utility or futility. Proposals demanding prodigious economic or political sacrifices for the sake of negligible climatic benefits should be rejected in favor of policies to address graver, more immediate concerns about which something constructive can actually be done.
continued at Daily Kos....
