The Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians Won't Tell You About Global Warming
Pielke (The Honest Broker) presents a smart and hard-nosed analysis of the politics and science of climate change and proposes  a commonsense approach to climate policy.  According to Pielke, the  iron law of climate policy  dictates that whenever  environmental and economic objectives are placed in opposition to each other,  economics always wins.  Climate policies must be made compatible with economic growth as a precondition for their success,  he writes, and because the world will need more energy in the future, an  oblique  approach supporting  causes,  such as developing affordable alternative energy sources rather than  consequences,  such as controversial schemes like cap-and-trade, is more likely to succeed. Although some may protest on principle the suggestion that we accept the inevitability of energy growth, Pielke's focus on adaptation to climate change refreshingly sidesteps the unending debate over the reality of anthropogenic climate change, and opens up the possibility for effective action that places  human dignity and democratic ideals at the center of climate policies.Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.