Matt responds to my earlier Climatopolis post

Not really, but it seems like it to the self-absorbed John (i.e., the real John):

Each day this week I am blogging at  Volokh Conspiracy about Climatopolis.  This is a great chance for me to present my book's main themes.  Carbon mitigation and climate change adaptation go hand in hand.  They are not substitutes. Liberal bloggers are yelling that adapation and mitigation are not  perfect substitutes (like Coke and Pepsi).  I agree with this and I never say that they are.  Adaptation will occur , it will be less costly to adapt to climate change if we take costly mitigation steps now. Given that we have chosen not to mitigate, we need to have a serious discussion about adaptation and climatopolis seeks to start a rational devate.

 If my book catches on, the fear is that the expectation that we can and will adapt to protect ourselves from climate change will further chill our urge to enact a carbon tax.  I support the carbon tax but national and international efforts to overcome the carbon free rider problem will fail.  You can win a Nobel Prize if you can come up with a mechanism that achieves a credible global deal.

via greeneconomics.blogspot.com