Round up the usual suspects  Sat, 2005-12-03 08:32Jim Hoggan Jim
Hoggan's picture  Round up the usual suspects  Maclean's
magazine, which has a fresh, new right-winginess about it since
the takeover by Conrad Black's protege Kenneth White, offers
"Three smarter ways to save the world" in its latest edition.
The writer, Steve Maich, has rounded up some standard-issue
"climate skeptics," including the self-styled "Skeptical
Environmentalist," Bjørn Lomborg, but most of the article is
about economics, not climate science.  There are basically two
arguments: First, North America could get better and more
immediate environmental value from spending money
fighting noxious pollutants like sulphur dioxide and nitrogen
oxides, rather than working to reduce the emissions of carbon
dioxide.This may well be true -- it always makes sense to treat
bleeding wounds before you tackle cancer -- but it's not a very
good argument for ignoring a more serious condition that is
building strength in the background.  The second argum