GOING GREEN BUT GETTING NOWHERE: This in the New York Times contains the following claim: “Every ton of carbon dioxide pollution causes around $20 of damage to economies, ecosystems and human health.” There’s no source given. Maybe one reason greens are getting nowhere is that their endless apocalyptic factoids are seeming a bit unbelievable to the general public. Particularly when top spokespeople like Al Gore and Tom Friedman have carbon footprints that would make Louis XIV blush. Perhaps people won’t be prepared to believe it’s a crisis until the people who keep telling them it’s a crisis start, you know, acting like it’s a crisis.