Tag Archives: Carbon Tax

The Verdict On Copenhagen

“A crushing disappointment.”

Kinda Consensus In Copenhagen

Yesterday, Fred Barbash of the Arena asked those of us who are contributors what we thought of the President’s address in Copenhagen.

Conceiving Of Carbon

Willian Happer writes that carbon is getting a bad rap, and we ought to be less concerned about it than we are; read the whole essay.

Want To Enact Sensible Enviornmental Policies?

Implement the recommendations Bjørn Lomborg calls for, and enact a carbon tax tied to actual global warming levels that will be offset by payroll tax cuts.

Waxman-Markey Is Filled With Pork And Special Interest Carve-Outs

Quelle surprise. How anyone calls this a breakthrough in climate policy is beyond me.

Reading Is Fundamental

But try telling that to Carol Browner.

Cap-And-Trade-And-Fraud Passes

It was a close vote, but the bill got through the House. I suppose that it is easy to get mad at the eight Republicans who helped push the vote over the top, but if they didn’t vote for the bill, other Democrats waiting in the wings were going to.

Cap-And-Trade-And-Fraud

It should surprise precisely no one to find out that Waxman-Markey defies the principles of economics. What is disappointing is that Waxman-Markey’s deficiencies would be much more obvious to the public eye if the CBO were not determined to cover up those deficiencies by lowballing the average household cost estimate with a report that does not examine costs when the cap becomes tightened and onerous.

Martin Feldstein Takes On Cap-And-Trade

Isn’t it marvelous what can be accomplished when one engages in simple cost-benefit analysis?

The Obama Administration And CAFE Standards

Megan McArdle thinks that the new auto emissions/fuel economy standards being imposed by the Obama Administration constitutes bad policy, but may be the most politically feasible policy out there.

Freeman Dyson’s Inconvenient Climate Change Position

My latest article for The New Ledger centers around the New York Times’s recent profile of physicist Freeman Dyson and his stance on global warming and climate change.

- March 20, 2010 -

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