Gernot Wagner’s Posts

• If it worked for the chronometer ...

  EDF's video contest will spur creativity and innovation around cap-and-trade 0

  Posted 1 year ago

  This is a response to Joseph Romm's post "Happy thoughts and fairy dust."

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  Nothing like some good, old-fashioned back-and-forth to keep bloggers -- and blog readers? -- engaged. EDF is organizing a video/graphics competition to ask for help in explaining, "What is a carbon cap and how will it cure our oil addiction?"

  Joe Romm critiqued the competition, calling it "bizarre" to ask others to help us "explain something that isn't true." I responded that MIT's climate model supports us, which prompted another response titled "Happy thoughts and fairy dust: EDF's and MIT's magical… Read More

• 'Bizarre'? No. Tough? Yes

  Joseph Romm's critique of EDF's contest is misguided 2

  Posted 1 year ago

  Joe Romm's analysis is mostly spot on -- and if a post starts like this, you already know what comes next. This time he responds to a $10,000 contest organized by EDF (yep, my employer) that asks for submissions to help explain: "What is a carbon cap and how will it cure our oil addiction?"

  Romm calls it a "bizarre" contest "to explain something that isn't true," since "it is all but inconceivable that a carbon cap will solve our oil addiction." Well, not so fast.

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