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Article: Brookings an unlikely purveyor of doom
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- September 14, 2008
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It's unbecoming of the Brookings Institution to get all
hysterical about global warming.
Brookings is left wing, but prestigious left wing, loaded with
smart people. If Democrats win a veto-proof Congress on Nov. 4,
they'll no doubt look to Brookings for the brainpower to back lots
of liberal policy.
So it's weird to find this elegant Washington think tank dealing
in doomsdays.
Such as: "Manhattan and Florida would be under water ... Nevada
would have no water at all." Plus fiercer hurricanes and desert
farmlands. All this unless Americans straighten out, fast!
Only "7 Years to Climate Midnight," said the headline of a
newspaper column co-authored not by a tree-hugger but the president
of ...