Read Krugman Today!

Paul Krugman's column today has a wonderful set of observations on Al Gore and the Nobel Prize: Krugman: Gore Meltdown. He says, among other things:

The worst thing about Mr. Gore, from the conservative point of view, is that he keeps being right....

Consider the policy implications of taking climate change seriously.

“We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals,” said F.D.R. “We know now that it is bad economics.” These words apply perfectly to climate change. It’s in the interest of most people (and especially their descendants) that somebody do something to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, but each individual would like that somebody to be somebody else. Leave it up to the free market, and in a few generations Florida will be underwater.