New York Times: In the New Mexico of the 1950s, the two brothers grew up steeped in the beauty of the landscape, the economics of energy and the power of science. They skied, fly-fished, explored on the familys 50,000-acre sheep ranch, watched oil towns go boom and bust, and talked of the nuclear weapons up the road at Los Alamos.
Today the work of Robert and William Nordhaus is profoundly shaping how the United States and other nations take on global warming.
Bill Nordhaus, 72, a Yale economist who is seen...