And investors and policy wonks alike are trumpeting the corn-based fuel as the solution to climate change and America's dependence on Mideast oil.
To give the sequel's readers this distorted lens through which to view climate change and its solution is to do readers a grave disservice.
It has been rebranded as an effort to create green jobs and end dependence on foreign oil rather than as a solution to climate change.
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Is it a comprehensive solution to climate change?
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But what concerns your correspondent about this chapter is that it spends most of its time describing an apparently cheap, simple solution to climate change: a clever idea fermented in a small set of laboratories at Intellectual Ventures, a firm run by Nathan Myhrvold, who was once Microsoft's chief technology officer.
In fact, it is now positioned as a solution to global climate change as a replacement for fossil fuel based energy (burning coal or natural gas).
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Environmentalists argue that tackling climate change is the only solution.
Far more insidious than all these concerns is the implicit assertion that the authors have cracked the hidden economic forces at work in the climate-change debate, and the explicit suggestion that this one technological solution is the silver bullet that could solve the climate calamity.
And since this region includes some of the fastest-growing nations, there can be no solution to the challenge of climate change without the cooperation of the Asia Pacific.
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In recent years, energy efficiency has been widely touted as the most cost effective solution to address concerns posed by commercial buildings on climate change, energy security, and volatile energy prices.
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In an effort to find a solution to this roadblock, the Pew Center on Global Climate Change released the report, Developing Countries and Global Climate Change, that details four alternative paths to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
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As a country challenged by the most challenging economic climate of our generation, we have recognized that government alone is not the solution.
The basic problem is that the political classes decided that climate change was something that needed their incredible skills as planners to reach a solution.
As China and India awaken to climate change, few of their leaders and thinkers seem to expect a more solid solution: an ambitious replacement, or refreshment, of the Kyoto protocol.
But while we dither over not just how to find a solution but whether we have a problem, the costs of dealing with climate change are rising along with atmospheric temperatures.
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In critiquing the first meaningful legislation in the United States on climate change it would have been nice if you recognised that this is part of a larger solution to solve a global problem.
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