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Category Archives: climate change
What is Ben Stein Smoking? (Part 2)
Ben Stein might be the last man in America to think that building more Escalades is actually a good idea.
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Three Questions for Charles Komanoff on Carbon Taxes
Trying to understand what carbon-tax proponents are talking about.
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Nuclear Energy’s Carbon Footprint
I’ll tell you what I want, what I really, really want: a ban on any website
citing scientific research without linking to it.
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Gasoline: Going Up, But Still Cheap
Dutch gasoline is double the price in the US.
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How Carbon Capture can Save the Coal-Burning Industry
If Robert Murray and his fellow denialists would stop railing against the inevitable and start seeing the opportunities that an enlightened carbon policy affords them, they might go down in history as heroes, rather than villains.
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The Bloomberg-Livingstone love-in
There was quite a love-in this afternoon between "Red" Ken
Livingstone, one of England’s most popular left-wingers, and billionaire
Mike Bloomberg
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When the Carbon Tax and Cap-and-Trade Kiss and Make Up
Progress against a challenge as vast as global warming will require us to use all the tools available to us: direct regulation (tougher fuel economy standards for cars, requirements on utilities to generate more of their electricity from renewable sources); economic carrots and sticks (a carbon tax that helps fund tax breaks for investment in greater energy efficiency and alternative energy sources); a cap-and-trade system that sets a hard limit on emissions; federal procurement that nurtures clean new technologies; and steps beyond all of these that we can’t yet imagine.
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Citi’s $50 Billion Climate Pledge: Less Than Meets the Eye?
Citi has pledged to do things to help the environment. But it hasn’t pledged not to harm the environment even more.
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US Moves Towards Energy Efficient Light Bulbs
Great
news on the front page of the Saturday WSJ today: it looks very much as
though a nationwide energy-efficiency standard is going to come into force which
will essentially force every household in the country to move from incandescent
bulbs to light bulbs which are both much more environmentally friendly and,
over the medium term, much cheaper to run.
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Moving a Carbon Tax Towards Cap-and-Trade
Still, Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki and Liberal Party leader Stephan Dion have an interesting idea which brings a carbon tax closer to a cap-and-trade system.
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Will a Carbon Tax Reduce Developing-Country Emissions?
Is Larry Summers’s Big Idea a carbon tax?
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Larry Summers on Cap-and-Trade
Larry
Summers has problems with a cap-and-trade approach to reducing carbon emissions.
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Self-Defeating Industries
Truckers and car manufacturers seem not to know what’s good for them.
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Why a Carbon Tax Can’t Replicate a Cap-and-Trade System
Greg Mankiw thinks that a cap-and-trade system where carbon emission rights are auctioned is equivalent to a carbon tax. It isn’t.
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Carbon Emissions: Regulation Versus Cap-and-Trade
John Kerry wants a cap-and-trade system. But until he can get one, he’ll use regulation instead.
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Why a Cap-And-Trade System Beats a Carbon Tax
If you want to be certain about reducing carbon emissions, and you want to do it in the most economically efficient way possible, then cap-and-trade is the way to go.
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Arguments Over Carbon Emissions
It’s a good idea not to go into too much detail why we should reduce carbon emissions.
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John Cassidy on the Economics of Climate Change
John Cassidy tells us that he isn’t "secretly working for a corporate-funded
think tank that churns out skeptical studies on global warming". Maybe
he should be, if he keeps on writing stuff like this.
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Stern, Sachs, and Stiglitz on the Economics of Climate Change
Why we should spend money now to make rich future generations even richer.
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