Posts Tagged ‘cap and trade’

If you pay someone to destroy greenhouse gases, they would never intentionally produce an excess, would they? Methinks I smell a rat.

Tweet Anyone paying attention to the Copenhagen climate summit is probably overwhelmed by the numbers, negotiations, rumors and rants plastering the media.  The scoreboard above tries to simplify all of that by projecting the temperature changes expected under the current agreements. The estimates are generated using the C-ROADS software, a sort of “climate model lite” [...]

TweetWell, it’s official – greenhouse gases are now under EPA regulation.  There’s been talk for the last year or so, and battles over whether carbon falls under their jurisdiction.  At the same time, many states (including my state North Carolina) have enacted legislation to perform the same function on a more local level. The feds [...]

TweetIn my last post, I questioned the efficacy of the Carbon Cap and Trade bill that recently passed in the House.  Today, I’ll tell you more about why I’m concerned, and how I’d propose a solution. Awful Offsets Carbon offsets, the guilt offerings of the 21st Century, have been rightly questioned and lambasted by almost [...]

TweetI find myself in a curious predicament: my job pretty much depends on global warming legislation, but I can’t bring myself to support the Waxman-Markey carbon cap and trade bill recently passed in the US House of Representatives. If you haven’t read about it, the idea goes something like this: The government sets a cap [...]