Insuring for Global Warming's Surprises

摘要

Postponing action on climate change will make the problem more expensive to manage later-if it can still be managed at all. So says a July 29 White House report on fighting global warming. While the message is true enough, changing attitudes about the problem is an exercise in persuasion, and the supposedly hard numbers highlighted in the report aren't the best way to make the case. The document's most powerful argument doesn't lend itself to number crunching.