In the front, you see, actually, Joe Murray getting the patient ready for the transplant, while in the back room you see Hartwell Harrison, the Chief of Urology at Harvard, actually harvesting the kidney.

The Hartwell group argues that mass improvements are needed across many technologies, requiring the determined participation of governments. They suggest partially funding the required research and development with a slowly rising but initially low carbon tax that would avoid undermining economic growth.

What defines the Kyoto approach, of course, is a single minded focus on cutting carbon dioxide emissions. The Hartwell Paper argues that the Kyoto approach, based as it is on past experience with relatively simple environmental problems like acid rain, was always doomed to failure.

Achieving these goals will obviously require heavy lifting. The Hartwell group correctly notes that in order to be successful, our approach to climate policy should offer obvious advantages ( rapid and demonstrable pay back ), appeal to a wide variety of people, and produce measurable results.

If any  or all of this sounds familiar, it may be because I have been arguing much the same points for some time. If my experience is any guide, the members of the Hartwell group should expect to be attacked as heretics for questioning the Kyoto orthodoxy.

Reducing global population is implausible, and deliberately reducing the size of the global economy would result in increased hardship for billions. The Hartwell Paper, then, sets out to develop a strategy that identifies a number of ways of pulling the levers of energy efficiency and carbon intensity.

If any or all of this sounds familiar, it may be because I have been arguing much the same points for some time. If my experience is any guide, the members of the Hartwell group should expect to be attacked as heretics for questioning the Kyoto orthodoxy.

The group s report, The Hartwell Paper, outlines a new direction for climate policy after the collapse of last year s attempts to negotiate a global climate deal. The authors note that 18 years of the Kyoto Protocol approach to international climate policy have failed to produce any discernable real world reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases.