Economists Love Carbon Taxes. Lots of Regular Folks Don't.
Raising the price of gasoline, heat, and electricity is a steep political hill to climb.
Raising the price of gasoline, heat, and electricity is a steep political hill to climb.
Very little carbon reduction, lots of political patronage.
Meanwhile U.S. carbon dioxide emissions continue to fall
Carbon-neutral transportation fuels might be possible.
Skip renewables for zero-carbon electricity and go directly to nuclear
Paris Agreement Climate Change
Despite the E.U.'s carbon markets and vast renewable energy subsidies
Funny: These cities didn't disclose any concerns about climate change in their bond issues.
Environmental Protection Agency
Is the plan actually necessary for bringing emissions down?
A Nature Geoscience study finds that humanity has more time to avert dangerous man-made warming.
"Only nuclear can lift all humans out of poverty while saving the natural environment."
Paris Agreement Climate Change
Instead, submit the Paris agreement as a treaty to Senate for a vote
But it will not bring back a lot of coal mining jobs.
Global emissions flat for 3rd year in a row despite strong economic growth
'We're going to work on the CAFE standards so you can make cars in America again'
Fatally flawed metric or the most important number that you've never heard of?
Underpins 80 federal regulations purportedly worth one trillion dollars
Paris climate agreement will reduce global warming by 0.2 degrees Celsius by 2100
"Another year. Another record. The high temperatures we saw in 2015 are set to be beaten in 2016."
Leading environmentalist groups hated its revenue neutrality
Would it be worth doing in the absence of a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade market?
And that was one year before the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change was negotiated.
Paris Agreement Climate Change
U.S. not on track to meet Obama's promised greenhouse gas cuts
Is a carbon tax a 'very libertarian proposal' for handling man-made global warming?
If global warming is a problem, it is idiotic for environmentalists to oppose nuclear power.
What did 'climate hero' James Hansen actually predict back in 1986?
Yet the U.S. economy grew in real terms by 15 percent since 2005.
But benefits won't last forever as climate change gets worse
Too weak or a giant bureaucratic threat to democracy?
Also carbon emissions rate highest in 66 million years
"World will discover a clean energy breakthrough that will save our planet and power our world."
Greenhouse gas regulations will now be an even bigger issue in the U.S. presidential campaign
Privately funded, carbon-free, walk-away-safe, burns nuclear waste - what's not to like?
Paris Climate Change Conference
Fourth Dispatch: Saving the climate is nice and all, but where's the money?
Paris Climate Change Conference
Second Dispatch: Also they believe that global warming a is huge business opportunity.
Paris Climate Change Conference
Opposing nuclear power is not climate friendly
The endgame in the quest for a universal climate treaty
Cites MIT "expert" who has apparently not read the work of his colleagues who agree with Lomborg
Paris Climate Change Conference
Plenty of economic pain for a likely reduction in global temperature rise of about -0.17°C in 2100
Increase equal to about 70 percent of total U.S. annual coal consumption
So says the new U.N. analysis of national climate plans from 146 countries
The rough road to adopting a universal climate treaty at Paris in December
We are living in interesting times.*
A lot of pain for what gain?
Consulting economist: What do you want it to equal?
Calculating cost of regulations in terms of carbon taxes
Rich countries commit to total decarbonization of the global economy.
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