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Matthew Yglesias is a fellow at the Center for American Progress. His first book, with the working title Heads in the Sand: Iraq and the Strange Death of Liberal Internationalism, scheduled to be published next spring by John Wiley and co., deals with the Democratic Party's struggle to find a post-9/11 foreign policy, focusing primarily on the rise and (hopefully) fall of the liberal hawk movement.

Previously, he was a staff writer at The American Prospect and an Associate Editor at TPM Media, where he contributed to the group blogs Tapped and TPMCafe. His main blog, now at The Atlantic, has existed in various forms since the dark ages of the blogosphere in January 2002.

His writing has appeared in The Guardian, Slate, The New Republic, and The Washington Monthly, and he is a regular on BloggingHeads.tv and makes the occasional radio or television appearance.

Desperately out of touch with the American mainstream, Yglesias was born and raised in Manhattan and studied philosophy at Harvard where he was editor in chief of The Harvard Independent, a campus alternative weekly.

His latest writings can be found on the Matthew Yglesias blog.

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Climate Change Alarmism: Not Just For Hippies Anymore

By Matthew Yglesias

Sep 25 2007, 4:21 PM ET Comment

Lehman Brothers has a new-ish report out titled "The Business of Climate Change II". It includes, among other things, an estimate of the true "social" cost of carbon:

Given these studies, we currently take as a central working estimate of the 'social' cost of carbon a figure of $50 per tonne today (€40), rising to perhaps $100 per tonne by 2050.


They also say that the way uncertainty plays out in this regard, "society might want to pay an insurance premium, to reduce the risk of an unforeseeable non-linearity, discontinuity, or catastrophe" since there's some chance that the impact of large-scale warming will be much worse than current science deems likely.

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