Yale 360 authors admit science was never behind climate change movement, intent was always to transform world economy

3/29/10, "Green think tank tells environmentalists: leave climate change science behind," The Hill.com by Ben Geman

• 3/29/10, "Freeing energy policy from the climate change debate," Yale Environment 360, by Nordhaus and Shellenberger.

Yale Environment 360 authors advocate dropping climate discussion, that it's interfering with its central goal of changing the world economy, that it put too much pressure on climate scientists to come up with a preordained outcome.

• That the important part is to transform the global economy.

"And understood in its proper role, as one of many reasons why we should

• decarbonize the global economy,

climate science can even help contribute to the case for taking such action.

• But so long as environmentalists continue

• to demand that climate science drive the
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• transformation

• of the global energy economy,

neither the science, nor efforts to address climate change, will be well served."...

• from The Hill.com by Ben Geman, "Green think tank tells environmentalists: leave climate change science behind," 3/29/10
• Essay on Yale environment 360,"Freeing energy policy from the climate change debate," by Nordhaus and Shellenberger, 3/29/10

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Among comments to post at the Hill:

• "These gentlemen have recognized the failure of a science-based approach, inasmuch as the facts did not support their arguments. Instead, I believe, they are actually recommending abandoning research-based analysis to sell their agenda
• without any rational basis." Eminence Grise

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"Do you really need any more proof than this? What this says in essence is that trying to use factual climate data to link green initiatives to non-existent global warming is hurting the economic goals of pseudo environmentalis ts.The real goal is not to mitigate adverse climatologicall y consequences but to initiate a global redistribution of wealth using the climate change movement as the catalyst of economic change.The lights are on and the roaches are beginning to scatter." Paul Magel


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