At Senate, Levin urges greenhouse legislation
Yale is large enough to be model of ‘responsible environmental practice’ for schools, Levin says
How about President Levin inviting Al Gore to be Visiting Professor of Global Resources Analysis.
So wait, #1, you'd rather that Yale send a huge diesel bus up to Levin's house and back twice a day than have Levin log half the distance in a little hybrid? Thanks for the laugh. You know he doesn't actually live on Hillhouse, right? I think Levin should be commended for his leadership on sustainability. Furthermore, Levin's reputation as a world-class economist makes his arguments particularly persuasive and helpful given that the chief opposition to emissions reduction will come from those who claim that such policy will be unacceptably toxic to our economy.
Give the guy a break. If he'd been president of Kent State, there never would have been a shooting there. You couldn't ask for a more a more liberal, activist presidency.
This cements Levin's "do as I say, not as I do" reputation, as previously exemplified by his cynical decision to hang onto the early admissions crutch a year after condemning it and urging other schools to drop it.
After pleading guilty to soliciting sex in a public bathroom, how does Larry Craig even have the nerve to say the nasty things about Yale that he did?
Someone please tell me how Richard Levin is qualified to ask for legislation on greenhouse emissions? I wasn't aware of his credentials as an environmental scientist. Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot. Global warming is a matter of faith, not science! Silly me.
I wonder if Levin took the train took a train to DC or a gas-guzzling jet. I'm betting the latter.
4/10/08
I share Moish Glukovsky's (#7)question about Mr. Levin's credentials as an environmental scientist. He certainly is devoting much time to the "Greening of Yale". Does anyone remember how his Law School star professor quarterbacked the lawsuit against the Defense Department re: the Solomon Amendment involving recruiting law graduates for the military?
The Supreme Court ruling 9-0 against the Yale team!
Perhaps the issue re: climate change and global warming is not a 100% done deal either vs. the opposition.
A sunny, skeptical Californian
The impact of the legislation is projected to eliminate 4,000,000 jobs nationwide. A percentage of those jobs are not likely to simply disappear, but rather be displaced to other foreign countries like China, India, and others. In the process of doing so, other countries' unregulated industrial engines will stoke the green house emissions still further. In an attempt to control our contribution to the greenhouse emissions, we very well could be the root cause for an increase.
I'm in favor of reducing green house emissions. I'm do not supporte changes that are politically popular while environmentally questionable.
How come Levin drives to work instead of taking the Yale shuttle or (GASP) W-A-L-K-I-N-G?? He may use a Prius, but that's not "zero emission". Not only should he talk the talk, but should also walk the walk. Despite his other faults, Larry Craig may have a point here.