Thursday, March 28, 2013

Richard Tol on the best way to prevent CO2-induced warm weather: Carbon Tax: Still the Best Way Forward for Climate Policy
climate policy is a jumble of taxes, tradable permits, subsidies, mandates and direct regulation.
CBC.ca News - Canada quietly pulls out of UN anti-droughts convention
A spokesman for International Co-operation Minister Julian Fantino said in an emailed statement that "membership in this convention was costly for Canadians and showed few results, if any for the environment."
Flashback: The Greening of the Sahel
whatever the reason for the greening of the Sahel over the past quarter-century, it is clear that in spite of what the world's climate alarmists claim were concomitant unprecedented increases in the "twin evils" of anthropogenic CO2 emissions and global warming, the Sahel experienced an increase in vegetative prowess that was truly, as Olsson et al. write, "remarkable."
Millions of single pensioners worst off on energy bills in 2020, figures show - Telegraph
The Department of Energy's new analysis yesterday showed that the Coalition’s green energy and fuel poverty policies will raise the price of electricity by a third by 2020 and 41 per cent by 2030.
Twitter / wdjstraw: Michael Fallon becomes new ...
Michael Fallon becomes new energy minister. Last year he questioned whether climate change targets were sensible:

1 comment:

gofer said...

Not one single mention, from Richard Tol, of global warming in his "carbon tax" article. It sums up as its a better way to bring in money than permits and one might assume some mention would be made of how this is going to save us all,rather than feed the govt. coffers.