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Developing nations commit carbon cut in Maldives meeting - People's Daily Online

During the meeting, Ethiopia commuted to becoming carbon neutral by 2025, Samoa by 2020, while the Marshall Islands pledged to cut its carbon dioxide emissions by 40 percent by 2020 from a 2009 base year.
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The Maldives and Costa Rica also reaffirmed their commitment to carbon neutrality by 2020 and 2021 respectively.

How Fat People Reduce Global Warming

This fact, heralded by radio and newspaper reports proclaiming, “Fatties Cause Global Warming,” was revealed in a “scientific” paper written by Professors Edwards and Roberts and published by the prestigious Oxford Press in the International Journal of Epidemiology.

The paper really ought to be perused directly to appreciate the elevated level of scholasticism employed by the authors, which would make even Thomas Aquinas and Albertus Magnus themselves sit up and take notice. For this paper, which indicts a whole class of individuals with the supreme crime of global warming, a crime whose disastrous effect on our planet eventually will make the atrocities perpetrated by even Hitler and Stalin seem mere trifles in comparison, reaches its conclusions without ever offering even one tiny glimmer of actual data or evidence.
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When we bury deceased fat people, it is plain to see that we are removing tons and tons of carbon from the carbon cycle and thus from the atmosphere, and instead sequestering it in the ground. It brings a tear to DrRich’s eye to imagine that his king-sized Uncle Harry, gone now for the better part of three decades, by virtue of all that carbon he took with him under the earth continues to make the world a better place for all us former kids he used to delight with his card tricks and his stupid jokes.

Michael Levi's Blog » Blog Archive » A Low Carbon Fuel Standard Could Be Ugly

It would, in the typical conception, do this by requiring refiners, blenders, and importers to hold special permits for their fuels. Those permits would be tradable – if I produced gasoline, I could buy permits from a biofuels producer to cover my extra emissions. This is basically cap-and-trade restricted to a small slice of the emissions picture. The impact on markets works similarly to cap-and-trade too: high-carbon fuels would get more expensive, leading people to reduce their relative consumption of them.

This may sound elegant, but it is an extraordinarily inefficient way to cut emissions, and could get very ugly in practice. Let me highlight two big problems.