This is heartening: the activist netroots are starting to get serious about figuring out global warming policy. Welcome to the fun, y'all!
Stoller comes to a familiar conclusion: carbon tax is preferable to cap and trade. I think he's a little hard on the latter, but the basic position is sound -- and all but universal among non-politicians these days.
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Delay And Deny Posted 10:59 am
26 Apr 2007
The military spending bill is already being rewritten and Reid/Pelosi have been casted as white-flag waivers.
I think the the Gorestat is going to be turned down soon as the recent data on the Ross ice shelf show we're nowhere near peak heating:
http://www.physorg.com/news96828703.html
The core was extracted during the recent Antarctic summer from a record 4,214 feet below the sea floor beneath Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf, the Earth's largest floating ice body. Laced with sediment dating to about 10 million years, the core suggests the Ross Ice Shelf retreated and advanced perhaps as many as 50 times during the last 5 million years in response to climate changes, said facility curator Matthew Olney.
The Texeme Construct
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Pangolin Posted 11:33 am
26 Apr 2007
As far as I know the netroots are pissed off at the Democratic Party elites for ignoring them and then feeding them bad whiskey and bullshit (literally) as a climate change policy.
The flat earth society or paid shills for Exxon are showing up all over the net with the same, pseudo-science apologies, denials or confusers about climate change.
The scientific community is as close to unanimous as they can get. There is warming and it is caused by human activity. It WILL BE A HAZARD to most humans.
Why the pretend confusion?
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GreyFlcn Posted 11:44 am
26 Apr 2007
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Earth Shaman Posted 12:47 pm
26 Apr 2007
Earth Shaman
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Pangolin Posted 1:34 pm
26 Apr 2007
If the nay-sayers are right and we've modified our whole economy to a carbon free status we have most of the toys we have now but powered by solar, wind, geothermal, a few nukes and tidal power. Houses will be remodeled for efficiency and groceries will come from quaint local markets like the ones we now fly thousands of miles to see at tourist locations.
Tourism will be sent back to the golden age when cruise ships, zeppelins and the orient express got people there in style. Mexico City and Beijing will be known for their gardens and clear air rather than for their pollution and traffic. Yeah, that would suck.
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dannychivers Posted 6:33 pm
26 Apr 2007
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/energy/story/0,,2044717 ...
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,, ...
Ho hum.
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Billhook Posted 6:54 pm
26 Apr 2007
namely that without an equitable and efficient Allocation of declining emission-rights
the outcome will be neither efficient nor equitable,
there seems little prospect of any useful comparison of the two main policy options.
With our petrol here in the UK taxed to cost $8 per gallon,
and our purchase of it still rising,
I would be interested to hear of cases where the taxation of a "bad"
has resulted in the suppression of its sales by over 95%,
as must happen asap with US GHG outputs.
Regards,
Billhook
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sasquatch Posted 3:43 am
27 Apr 2007
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