BY DAN
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Wednesday, January 28, 2004
The Great Kerry Debate. The
New Republic has asked me and my former Phoenix
colleague Jon Keller, of WLVI-TV (Channel 56) and Boston
magazine, to debate the merits of John Kerry's candidacy. I get to go
first, so have
a look.
It's warmer, so we're
colder. This ungodly cold winter has provided plenty of smirking
material for those inclined to dispute the reality of global warming,
and of the likelihood that human activity is making it
worse.
So by all means read
this
New York Times op-ed
by Harvard Medical School's Paul Epstein. Epstein observes that
worldwide warming, paradoxically, will make the earth colder in some
places - like Boston, for instance, or New York, where Al Gore was
recently mocked for delivering a speech on global warming in the
midst of a cold snap.
If you want to go deeper,
this
indispensable article was
published six years ago in the Atlantic Monthly. According to
the piece, by scientist William Calvin, the localized effects of
global warming could be catastrophic. For instance, warming could
halt the northward flow of the Gulf Stream, making Northern Europe as
cold as Labrador.
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Dan Kennedy is senior writer and media critic for the Boston Phoenix.
