The Huge Mistake - Climate Change Solutions 2009

[mcap52]

I'm just wondering how the evidence that was recently received from ten years of study shows that "climate change"is a hoax.I mean,when we have experts like Clinton,Gore and Obama insisting that the stuff we exhale is causing global warming we should believe them right????

[tyackle]

Good idea that will never be accepted by the democrat controlled Washington.

1) Doesn't give them more money to spend as they see fit.

2) Doesn' make the population more dependent on government

3) Doesn't get them to a place where they can be the perpetual majority.

[shellius]

Caps are not a mistake. The problem with a tax is that super rich polluters like Exxon and BP and Massey and Duke Energy can afford to pay any tax you throw at them with no cap. They will pay whatever you ask them to pay and keep polluting. How is that good?

What a carbon tax bill needs is a cap. The Kerry-Boxer bill has a cap, but even better, a price collar. Trading is not good, but there is no trading in the Kerry-boxer bill.

[CarbonFees]

Dear Shellius, Perhaps you have missed our central point about carbon fees -- that they would correct the relative price advantage that uncontrolled fossil fuels currently enjoy over clean energy within a known time frame. Once it is clear that solar and wind will be cheaper than fossil fuel energy at a known point in time, further investment in coal-fired power plants will be recognized as a bad investment. That is the powerful shift in incentives we need to begin the clean energy revolution.

[stickityoujerks]

tax carbon

[sstoft]

This video gets it right. What's telling is that the top-ranked U.S. Climate Scientist (James Hansen) and the top-ranked (Nobel prize winning) economist working on climate change (Joseph Stiglitz) both agree that caps are a mistake, and that a carbon tax with recycled revenue is the solution.

[tigrrlmacvean]

Before the carbon fees, how about we stop subsidizing fossil fuels first. Part of the reason dirty fossil fuels are so profitable are the subsidies they already receive.