Stern: On Climate, Pessimism Is No Option – Green Inc. Blog – NYTimes.com.
Sir Nicholas Stern, Britain’s chief climate change economist, was optimistic about a new global warming treaty in December… the economics adviser to former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and the author of a massive 2006 study on the cost of climate change, outlined in broad strokes a potential international deal to confront global warming — the objective of a global conference on climate change to be held in Copenhagen this December