In recent days, I've been conducting Q & A's via email with authors of The Hartwell Paper, a provocative essay that lays out "a new direction for climate policy." Today's interview is with Hartwell co-author Roger Pielke Jr., a professor of environmental studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and whose new book, The Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians Won't Tell You About Global Warming, will be published this September. As stated in The Hartwell Paper's Executive Summary, the authors begin from this premise:
It is now plain that it is not possible to have a "˜climate policy' that has emissions reductions as the all encompassing goal. However, there are many other reasons why the decarbonisation of the global economy is highly desirable. Therefore, the Paper advocates a radical reframing"”an inverting"”of approach: accepting that decarbonisation will only be achieved successfully as a benefit contingent upon other goals which are ...
