Up Next for Debate: Carbon Costs

A sequel to the ballyhooed debate in 2007 over the motion that “Global Warming is Not a Crisis” has been scheduled in New York City in January, this time exploring a new premise: “Major Reductions in Carbon Emissions are Not Worth the Money.” Those in favor of the motion (some additions may come, organizers say) will be the skeptical environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg Philip Stott, the British biogeographer who has become a prominent critic of global warming worriers; and Peter W. Huber, the Manhattan Institute scholar, lawyer, and mechanical engineer who has written that energy waste is unavoidable and beneficial.