The Narrative Vacuum

Collide-a-Scape
By Keith Kloor
Oct 18, 2010 7:30 PMNov 20, 2019 5:05 AM

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The collapse of U.S. cap and trade legislation and the irrelevance of global climate talks means there's a narrative vacuum that needs to be filled. That would be the Where Do We Go From Here narrative. Make no mistake: there will be a bloggy blood bath over who gets to shape this narrative. And it will be largely internecine, between liberal and climate-concerned bloggers. This dynamic was foreshadowed last week, when some critics wasted little time in shooting down a proposed paradigm shift floated in a bipartisan white paper. This week brings the WaPo's Dana Milbank suggestion that geoengineering be pondered as a "plan B for climate change." Before anyone in the Climate Progress posse gets too riled up, they should continue reading what Milbank says:

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