{"id":2511,"date":"2014-12-05T19:51:41","date_gmt":"2014-12-06T00:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2511"},"modified":"2014-12-05T19:51:41","modified_gmt":"2014-12-06T00:51:41","slug":"george-shultz-reagans-secretary-of-state-on-climate-change-the-potential-results-are-catastrophic-desmogblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2511","title":{"rendered":"George Shultz, Reagan&#8217;s Secretary Of State, On Climate Change: &#8220;The Potential Results Are Catastrophic&#8221; | DeSmogBlog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/2014\/12\/05\/george-shultz-reagan-s-secretary-state-climate-change-potential-results-are-catastrophic\">George Shultz, Reagan&#8217;s Secretary Of State, On Climate Change: &#8220;The Potential Results Are Catastrophic&#8221; | DeSmogBlog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">George Shultz, who served as President Ronald Reagan&#8217;s Secretary of State from 1982 to 1989, is not only willing to buck the\u00a0<a style=\"color: #3399cc; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/daily-comment\/republicans-united-on-climate-change\" target=\"_blank\">Republican Party&#8217;s orthodoxy on global warming<\/a>\u00a0by acknowledging climate science, he&#8217;s outright calling for action. And he&#8217;s even willing to walk the talk.<br style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" \/><br style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" \/>Shultz, a former University of Chicago economics professor and president of Bechtel, has installed solar panels on his house and drives an electric car around the Stanford University campus, where he\u2019s a distinguished fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace.<br style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" \/><br style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" \/><a style=\"color: #3399cc; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2014-12-01\/reagan-statesman-s-sunshine-power-hint-of-thaw-in-climate-debate.html\" target=\"_blank\">According to Bloomberg<\/a>, Shultz\u2019s climate awakening came when a retired Navy admiral showed him time-lapse footage of disappearing Arctic sea ice and \u201cexplained the implications for global stability.\u201d<br style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" \/><br style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" \/>\u201cThe potential results are catastrophic,\u201d Shultz says to his fellow Republicans. \u201cSo let\u2019s take out an insurance\u00a0policy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\"><br style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" \/>Shultz, who\u00a0<a style=\"color: #3399cc; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2014-12-01\/reagan-statesman-s-sunshine-power-hint-of-thaw-in-climate-debate.html\" target=\"_blank\">supports a tax on fossil fuels<\/a>\u00a0that would be used to pay \u201ccarbon dividend checks\u201d to\u00a0<span class=\"caps\" style=\"font-size: 0.9em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">US<\/span>\u00a0citizens, was part of a bipartisan group that produced a report earlier this year on the economic risks of global warming called\u00a0<a style=\"color: #3399cc; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/riskybusiness.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cRisky Business.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0In\u00a0<a style=\"color: #3399cc; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/riskybusiness.org\/about\/risk-committee\/george-shultz\" target=\"_blank\">commenting on the report<\/a>, he spelled out what he means by calling for a climate change \u201cinsurance policy\u201d a little more\u00a0clearly:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Shultz, Reagan&#8217;s Secretary Of State, On Climate Change: &#8220;The Potential Results Are Catastrophic&#8221; | DeSmogBlog. George Shultz, who served as President Ronald Reagan&#8217;s Secretary of State from 1982 to 1989, is not only willing to buck the\u00a0Republican Party&#8217;s orthodoxy on global warming\u00a0by acknowledging climate science, he&#8217;s outright calling for action. 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