Cap and Trade: What is It?

Apparently most Americans don't know what Cap and Trade is (or they forgot somewhere along the way.) So this is EcoGeek's intro to cap and trade, what it means for the country, for global warming, for the environment and for green technology.

Yes, It's Complicated, the EDAF offered $10,000 to the person who could best briefly illustrate and explain cap and trade
http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/2157/75/

And Maybe We Can Start Selling CO2 EBay!
http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/786/85/

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• cap and trade
• global warming
• environment
• emissions
• legislation
• obama
• carbon dioxide
• greenhouse gas
• ecogeek

[rcdcoley]

Thanks! Keep the info flowing.

[macy725]

Why don't we just not regulate carbon and let the price of oil spur inovation? We don't need a bunch of fake dollars floating around our economy forced upon us by our Government.

[thestonemaster81]

Goverment is never the anwer.

[LeadingWay]

"The Goal of the Carbon-Tax and Cap and Trade is to Destroy Production" -Dr. Webster Tarpley

[themanwhocan2kx]

@david222444 CO2 is a greenhouse gas. So is water vapor, so are a lot of things. They are harmless in small amounts. However increasing the amount of a greenhouse gas increases the amount of sunlight that is re-reflected upon the earth. Since the industrial revolution, we've been burning carbon, turning it into CO2, and sending it upto the atmosphere in alarming amounts. Not a harmless byproduct.

[LKBM]

@QueenMagslieofSweden An electric car can get cleaner (and cheaper to operate) over time as generation improves. With gasoline-powered car, you need to replace the cars to reduce pollution.

Additionally, if your pollution is collected into a small number of areas, you can much more easily capture it, and locate it further from population centers. Less city smog = better health. (Banning leaded gas has measurable raised average intelligence of the population. Let's eliminate smog altogether.)

[Lentenlands]

you're a naive fool

[QueenMagslieofSweden]

Okay, I'm going to ignore all the debates below me and ask a question: Why is everyone pushing so much for electric cars? I realize they wont use gasoline, which is good, but to get the electricity we'll just be burning coal, another fossil fuel, and this will still produce CO2, so I don't feel like it's much of a step up.

[ZePopTart]

sometimes it causes me actual physical pain to read YouTube comments. I'm just going to navigate away... just navigate away...

[david222444]

Do not try to overcomplicate things here, the climate which is a chaotic system is complicated enough . Now back to what I was saying. Co2 is a harmless product of a warming Planet and there is no Scientific proof that man causes Global Warming. Stick to your propaganda as there is certainly no science in AGW. I will repeat one more time for your attention, every level of the Atmosphere is cooling, the Pacific is cooling, volcanic activity is increasing and the Sun is quiet. It is cooling.