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Uncommon Knowledge: Matt Ridley

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Commerce and Virtue: Is Money the Root of All Good?

02 min 17 sec

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Matt Ridley, author of The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves, explains how commerce can actually help make people better. He cites numerous studies that conclude the more commercial interactions people are involved in the more they realize the importance of fairness.

"You learn pretty quickly that it's not a good idea to insult your customers, or kill them," says Ridley.
Is Environmental Regulation Damaging the Planet?

02 min 27 sec

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Author Matt Ridley agrees that carbon dioxide emissions are changing the Earth's climate, though he opposes hasty regulations that may be doing greater ecological and economic harm. "We might find in 50 years' time that we have put a tourniquet around our neck to prevent a nosebleed," says Ridley.
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Charles Frith

Posted: 01.26.11, 04:33 AM

Wow. The Hoover Institution towing the propaganda line? Talk about though tanking.

Fora2

Posted: 01.24.11, 09:54 PM

MIT News, May 19, 2009: MIT Research published in the American Meteorological Society's JOURNAL OF CLIMATE, predicts at current rates of increase, a median probability global surface temperatures will rise +5.2 degrees Celsius (+9.3F) by the year 2100. (and a 95% probability global temperatures will rise +3.5C (+6.3F) by 2100.) A +5.2C rise in global temps. is likely beyond the tipping point for a mass release of natural methane from arctic permafrost. If we do pass that tipping point causing an uncontrolled release of arctic methane, global temps could spike as much as +10C (+18F) Sec. of Energy, Nobel physicist, Dr. Stephen Chu is concerned because we just don't know what that tipping point is.