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Conservatives for a Carbon Tax? | National Review Online

Even Mr. Obama’s former EPA administrator, Lisa Jackson, admitted that a carbon-reduction program in the U.S. would not affect global carbon levels, much less temperature.

The only real certainty about a carbon tax is that it would wreak major economic damage. It would cripple the fossil-fuels industry, for starters, and that’s a very big deal for America. We boast the world’s largest reserves of traditional fuels. By the end of the next decade, we will likely be a net exporter of petroleum. The conventional-fuels industry creates good-paying jobs, including many blue-collar positions. Indeed, fracking and other advanced methods of extracting fossil fuels enabled the energy sector to lead the way in job creation throughout the recession.

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Lib Dem Energy Secretary tells newspapers to stop publishing views of climate change sceptics – Telegraph Blogs

What Ed Davey appears to be saying is that it's perfectly acceptable for some sections of the media to endorse one side in this debate, but not for other sections to endorse the other.
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Even if we put the moral objections to state censorship to one side, there's a good practical reason for not muzzling your intellectual opponents. As JS Mill points out in On Liberty, either they are right, in which case you shouldn't try and suppress the truth, or they are wrong, in which case you have nothing to fear from the publication of their views since their wrong-headedness will then be plain for everyone to see. If Ed Davey really believes that the truth is on his side in this debate, he should encourage his opponents to air their views in public as often as possible, not criticise "some sections of the press" for giving them a platform.

Climate Envoys Urged to Draft Plan B on Failure of Global Target - Bloomberg

“Since a target that is obviously unattainable cannot fulfill either a positive symbolic function or a productive governance function, the primary target of international climate policy will have to be modified,” said Oliver Geden, author of the report, which will be released today as talks begin in Bonn.