Over the last year, celebrities such as Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon, Robert Redford, Mark Ruffalo, Mario Batali, Scarlett Johansson, Alec Baldwin, and Matt Damon have spoken out against the expansion of natural gas drilling. “Fracking kills,” says Ono, who has a country home in New York. “It threatens the air we breathe,” says Redford. read more »
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Fracktivists for Global Warming: How Celebrity NIMBYism Turned Environmentalism Against Natural Gas
by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus 03/07/2013
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Why Emissions Are Declining in the U.S. But Not in Europe
by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus 04/21/2012
It wasn't that long ago that the U.S. was cast as the global climate villain, refusing to sign the Kyoto accord while Europe implemented cap and trade.
But, as we note below in a new article for Yale360, a funny thing happened: U.S. emissions started going down in 2005 and are expected to decline further over the next decade, while Europe's cap and trade system has had no measurable impact on emissions. Even the supposedly green Germany is moving back to coal. read more »
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