Richard Heinberg on Paul Krugman's errors and omissions

Paul Krugman, a NYT columnist, published a column that basically supports the idea that climate change mitigation and economic growth can go together. Richard Heinberg, from the Post Carbon Institute, posts a very good answer, which I thought useful to be shared with this working group.

"In a New York Times op-ed published September 18 titled “Errors and Emissions,” economist-columnist Paul Krugman took a swipe at my organization, Post Carbon Institute, lumping us together with the Koch brothers as purveyors of “climate despair.” No, the Koch brothers are not in despair about the climate; apparently our shared error is that we say fighting climate change and growing the economy are incompatible. And, according to Krugman, a new report from the New Climate Economy Project (NCEP) and a working paper from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) show that the falling cost of renewable energy means this is happily not the case.

But in our view Krugman himself is guilty of five critical errors, and three equally serious omissions."

Read more on Post Carbon Institute's blog.