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History suggests he’s wrong.

Nuclear Crisis in Japan

A game-changer or the price of doing business? At first there was the shock — the unbelievable devastation wrought first by Japan’s largest recorded earthquake (recently upgraded to a magnitude of 9.0) and then by the tsunami. Then, as the focus shifted to the daunting cleanup and recovery, another crisis hit — this one at…

Somebody didn’t get the memo. Wind and other low-carbon technologies have taken their hits of late from the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page and its ilk. (Examples here, here, here, and here.) But one piece in particular caught my eye with the headline: “Electric Cars May Accelerate Global Warming.” It Started at Forbes.com … ……

Did you resolve last January that 2010 would be the harbinger of a new low-carbon world? Sorry, the statistics for 2010 are coming in, and it’s pretty clear it did not happen. Let’s take a look.