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<div><font face="Arial">"And there are conservative
solutions for warming. Some party members, in fact, see it as an
inherently Republican issue: Carbon emissions, for example, distort
the free market, forcing others to pay the higher and indirect costs
of climate change (storm recovery, disaster relief) plus the health
costs associated with air pollution.</font><br>
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<div><font face="Arial">"'We allow the coal industry to socialize
its costs, and we conservatives don't like allowing people to
socialize anything,' says former South Carolina Rep. Bob Inglis, who
now explores free-market solutions to climate change as head of the
Energy and Enterprise Institute at George Mason
University.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">"A revenue-neutral carbon tax, one that
does not support other programs and instead goes back to households,
could fix that distortion, he and others argue."</font></div>
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<div><font face="Geneva" color="#000000">"<b>Unfortunately, it is
very difficult to measure ecological resilience in practice.</b> Here
we show that the rate of recovery from small perturbations (sometimes
called "engineering resilience") is a remarkably good indicator of
ecological resilience. Such recovery rates decrease as a catastrophic
regime shift is approached, a phenomenon known in physics as 'critical
slowing down.' We demonstrate the robust occurrence of critical
slowing down in six ecological models and outline a possible
experimental approach to quantify differences in recovery rates. In
all the models we analyzed, critical slowing down becomes apparent
quite far from a threshold point, suggesting that it may indeed be of
practical use as an early warning signal."</font></div>
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<div><font face="Geneva" color="#000000">Egbert H. van Nes and
Marten Scheffer.</font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva" color="#000000"><b>Slow Recovery from
Perturbations as a Generic Indicator of a Nearby Catastrophic
Shift. </b></font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva" color="#000000"><i>the american
naturalist</i> june 2007</font><font face="Bookman Old Style"
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