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End of a green delusion

End of a green delusion
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The Wall Street Journal
By Holman W JenkinsGet out your notepads, social scientists. A “preference falsification” bubble is about to go pop in the realm of climate policy.The term comes from Duke University’s Timur Kuran , for when people feel pressured to adopt and exhibit ideas they don’t believe in. One such bubble was born under near-laboratory conditions in December 2008. The incoming Obama administration decided, with Republicans vacating the White House, that the “existential” threat of climate change no longer merited u...

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