Which Is More Important – Emissions Goals or Clean Tech?

Think tanks, politicians, business leaders and environmentalists are beginning to take sides in a central debate of the climate change dilemma. At question is whether its more important to promote the rapid development of clean technology or the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

Roger Pielke Jr., a science-policy specialist at the University of Colorado at Boulder believes current technologies may not be climate friendly enough to stabilize atmospheric greenhouse-gas concentrations. As a result, he says, people should focus more on policies that directly address what many analysts see as a yawning technology gap, rather than on regulatory approaches that deal with the gap less directly.

Read the full story in the Christian Science Monitor.