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Category Archives: Climate Change
Lawrence Solomon: The pro-carbon tax
Big city governments concerned about global warming have a special responsibility to act because urbanization holds the greatest potential to curb greenhouse gas emissions. Residents of big cities typically produce about half the emissions that residents elsewhere produce, but even this figure minimizes the potential of cities to curb greenhouse gases.
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Grantmakers Against Global Warming
(March 5, 2008) The $200-million per year currently spent fighting global warming isn’t enough, says “Design to Win: Philanthropy’s Role in the Fight Against Global Warming,” a report funded by six philanthropies. To get the job done, at least $800-million per year is needed. Continue reading
The pro-carbon tax
(February 20, 2008) Governments are proposing carbon taxes to discourage people and industries from activities that emit carbon dioxide. This is a feeble use of the tax system in fending off the catastrophe that governments see coming. There are other, more powerful ways in which governments could, and should, use the tax system if they truly want to discourage CO2 emissions. Continue reading
The Carbon Harvest
(February 13, 2008) Global warming is the biggest threat that farmers face, and not because carbon dioxide threatens their crops — carbon dioxide is actually a boon to crops, and increases yields. Continue reading
Extreme competition, but not extreme enough
(February 7, 2008) Since Maggie Thatcher broke up the United Kingdom’s dysfunctional energy monopolies two decades ago, costs plummeted, as did prices for consumers, as a wave of new entrants into the energy business led to a textbook example of the benefits of competition. Continue reading
Geo-pipe dreams
(January 26, 2008) With climate change threatening us with extinction, many of the best minds going are working on methods to save us from oblivion. Here they are, and how they propose to save us from ourselves: Continue reading
The Deniers, Part XLI: Geo-pipe dreams
(January 26, 2008) With climate change threatening us with extinction, many of the best minds going are working on methods to save us from oblivion. Here they are, and how they propose to save us from ourselves: Continue reading
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The Deniers, Part XL: Carbon as currency
(January 12, 2008) To lower our carbon footprint to levels deemed necessary to prevent climate change, we’ll need to do more than limit our air travel, buy fuel-efficient cars and switch to compact fluorescent light bulbs. Continue reading
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The Deniers, Part Part XXXV: You still need your parka in Antarctica
(November 15, 2007) Antartica – a vast territory whose sea-ice growth in winter effectively doubles its size to envelop an area three times that of Canada – is the world’s coldest continent by far, its permanent ice sheet regulating the Antarctic atmosphere. Continue reading
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Climate change debate
Two recent FP Comment columns make the case that Canada should have no policies to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Continue reading
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