Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Alarmist: Carbon trading won't stop climate change - opinion - 20 April 2009 - New Scientist
The paradox is this. All these methods of pricing carbon permit the creation of a carbon market that will allow us to pollute beyond a catastrophic tipping point. In other words, they require us to put a price on the final "killing" tonne of CO2 which, once emitted, tips the balance and triggers runaway global warming.
Climate-Change [Fraud] Bill: Will Cost Just Pennies a Day, EPA Says - Environmental Capital - WSJ
Curbing carbon emissions might not cost as much as previously thought.

The Environmental Protection Agency presented its analysis of the Waxman-Markey bill on Tuesday and said the contentious plan would cost households less than $150 a year.

That’s a far cry from some of the dueling price tags that have been bandied about. Republican leadership in the House of Representatives says the climate bill will cost families about $3,000 a year.
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Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, referring to last week’s EPA ruling that it has to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions unless Congress acts first, did provide the climate-policy metaphor for the Second Amendment crowd: “It’s as if, faced with a gun to our heads, we take it and shoot ourselves in the chest,” she said.

So that would be a “nay.”

1 comment:

10ksnooker said...

Before the final 'killing ton' is belched, the sub-prime carbon market will have completely melted down.