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28 development dialogue september 2006 – carbon trading45 Larry Lohmann, ‘Whose Voice is Speaking? HowOpinion Polling and Cost-Benefit Analysis SynthesizeNew “Publics”’, Corner House Briefing No. 7, 1998,available at http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk. See alsoKysar, op. cit. supra note 41, pp. 570-78.46 For various irrationalities associated with costbenefitanalysis, see also Henry Richardson, PracticalReasoning about Final Ends, Cambridge UniversityPress, Cambridge, 1994; Martha Nussbaum, TheFragility of Goodness, Cambridge University Press,Cambridge, 1986; John O’Neill, Ecology, Policy andPolitics, Routledge, London, 1993; Elizabeth Anderson,Value in Ethics and Economics, Harvard UniversityPress, Cambridge, MA, 1993; David Wiggins, Needs,Values, Truth, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1987and Mary O’Brien, Making Better EnvironmentalDecisions: An Alternative to Risk Assessment, MITPress, Cambridge, MA, 2000.47 Frank H. Knight, Risk, Uncertainty and Profit, HoughtonMifflin, Boston, 1921, Part III, Chapter VII. See alsoBox: Carbon Offsets and the Ghost of Frank Knight, inChapter 3 of this special report, pp. 160-161.48 Evan Mills, ‘Insurance in a Climate of Change’, Science309, 12 August 2005, pp. 1040-1044.49 For example, an Oxford University programmeattempting to model climate change between 1920and 2080, and run on thousands of home computersin Britain, had to be restarted in April 2006 aftermodelers decided that ‘one of the input files to themodel hadn’t been increasing the amount of sulphatepollution in the atmosphere (sometimes called the“global dimming” effect) as it should have done’,resulting in an ‘unmasked’ and therefore exacerbatedwarming. See http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/hottopics/climatechange/updates1.shtml.50 Fred Pearce, ‘Harbingers of Doom?’, New Scientist2457, 24 July 2004.51 Paul N. 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