Sentences with phrase «about a carbon tax as»

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Scheer had been noticeably tightlipped about Trump's exit; some Conservative supporters were pretty happy that Trump was giving the bum's rush to climate science they view as hokum, while others had, well, supported Michael Chong and his carbon taxes for the Conservative leadership.

«When you start talking about climate change and the need for major changes, carbon taxes and lifestyle changes, [conservatives] see this as a threat to capitalism and future prosperity,» said McCright.

«The consequences of not [acting] are even higher with these results than they were before, when we could think about 1.5 degrees as being in the realm of possibility — which I think, realistically, it's not,» he said, urging more investments in research, a tax on carbon and other established paths to emissions reductions.

Carbon taxes like those suggested in the «Stern Report» to the UK Government, about $ 100 / metric tonne of carbon dioxide (equivalent to 88 US cents / gallon of gasoline and so on throughout the system) would accelerate whatever technology, economic forces, and lifestyle decisions might choose as paths towards a less carbon intensive lifestyle.

For many years, there has been a great deal of discussion about carbon - pricing — whether carbon taxes or cap - and - trade — as an essential part of a meaningful national climate policy.

Those concerned about climate change are frequently described as «fanatical green ideologues out to create a new world order» — or else greedy scamsters out to extract money via evil carbon taxes and redistributive payments of all sorts.

And this, Krosnick says, is largely because they might only hear from the most vocal, opinionated voters, such as those who attend town hall meetings or angrily call them up — and if we're talking about a red state or county, chances are they're not calling for a carbon tax.

Second, there is a wider debate over what to do, or not do, about climate change, with peoples» preferences (a carbon tax, a technology push, building dikes or parasols in space) not so much a function of science as values.

One thing that surprises me when people talk about the «costs» of a carbon tax is that they portray the money from the tax as somehow vanishing.

Moving from theory to practice, however, has proven challenging, as the two leading approaches to pricing carbon, carbon taxes and cap - and - trade programs, only cover about 12 % of all carbon emissions globally today.

However this view is based on a lack of knowledge of what Marx actually wrote about the nature of the modern state which was: «The executive of the modern state is nothing but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie» Some leftists may well scream in exactly the same way as the new rightists, that carbon taxes are part of a plot by the wicked capitalists to make the poor freeze in winter.

Mr Trudeau has increasingly shown himself as a hypocrite about global warming, accepting a helicopter ride to a private island to enjoy a free family vacation with a billionaire and putting forward a carbon tax proposal whihc is insufficient.

e360: You and others have spoken quite a bit about the importance of imposing a carbon tax as a way of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and now we have a new administration coming in and a new Congress.

When asked about specific proposals to reduce climate change, most Democrats (90 %) and smaller majorities of Republicans (65 %) say that restrictions on power plant emissions would make a difference in reducing climate change, as would tax incentives encouraging businesses to reduce their carbon emissions (85 % and 65 %, respectively).

The most one could say is that these sorts of groups have opposed specific legislation, such as carbon taxes or drilling bans, that Brulle wants politicians to enact into law.50 This opposition may explain a lot about Brulle's motivations, and it definitely shows that he's more interested in political victories than science, but it says nothing about how Americans form their views of the science of Global Warming.

IMO the problem could be fixed in the same time - frame they're talking about, for the same sort of cost (~ $ 20 / ton) that several polities have already implemented (as a carbon tax).

If someone argues that all or even the majority of people who are «alarmed» about climate change — and consider carbon taxes as a potentially viable policy — are Marxist in their intentions, then I see little room for discussion.

A $ 30 - a-tonne carbon tax would make gas — which is about half as polluting as coal when burnt — the preferred fuel for new power stations.

I would like to see more open discussion about the Hartwell paper analysis, and other nuanced analysis — but to repeat one last time: Categorizing any arguments for even strong carbon taxes as «Marxist» does not seem to me like a good starting point (as would categorizing the Hartwell paper as «denialist.»

Also, why say anything favorable about carbon taxes when cap - and - trade is dead and there's no longer even a weak prudential case for supporting carbon taxes as the lesser evil?

When the policy solution emphasized a tax on carbon emissions or some other form of government regulation, which is generally opposed by Republican ideology, only 22 percent of Republicans said they believed the temperatures would rise at least as much as indicated by the scientific statement they read.But when the proposed policy solution emphasized the free market, such as with innovative green technology, 55 percent of Republicans agreed with the scientific statement.For Democrats, the same experiment recorded no difference in their belief, regardless of the proposed solution to climate change.As study authors Troy Campbell and Aaron Kay wrote in the introduction to their paper about this study, this shows «not necessarily an aversion to the problem, per se, but an aversion to the solutions associated with the problem.»

Instruments such as carbon taxes that are designed to increase the cost of burning fossil fuels rely on decision makers to develop expectations about future trajectories of fuel prices and other economic conditions.

This gap is about to increase, as Australia has taken the first steps to cancel its carbon tax and Japan is backtracking from what it promised to reduce.

«COTAP has a proven and longstanding commitment to poverty - alleviating carbon projects, they're very transparent and modest about their margins, and they place the tool of carbon offsets at the fingertips of individuals as a tax - deductible donation and in increments as small as 1 tonne.»

But the angst about Mr Abbott's alternative to the carbon tax is a new front for the Opposition Leader to combat as he heads towards an election in September that he is strongly favoured to win, according to polls.

In 1989 the Board, for the first time in 16 years, amended the Association's goals and objectives to highlight a growing concern about carbon taxes and other fees which would increase energy costs to consumers — a concern as important to us as are environmental sensitivity and competition among energy suppliers.

As we learn more about the response of emissions to the price on carbon, we can raise or lower the tax or as we learn more about the maximum CO2 we can sustain in the atmosphere, we can raise or lower our caAs we learn more about the response of emissions to the price on carbon, we can raise or lower the tax or as we learn more about the maximum CO2 we can sustain in the atmosphere, we can raise or lower our caas we learn more about the maximum CO2 we can sustain in the atmosphere, we can raise or lower our cap.

The figure of $ 93 talked about by Hunt as a 1 «tonne carbon tax» is the full cost of a REC, that will be reached when the shortfall penalty starts to apply: the full cost of the REC is added to retail power bills.

As for adaptation: since there's no way to distinguish effects of «AGW» from existing levels of extreme events, why not forget about a carbon tax and just call it «foreign aid»?

Based on a real world «business as usual» emissions scenario, with natural gas displacing oil at its current pace and no carbon tax, I come up with a CO2 right about inline with RCP 6.0, «a mitigation scenario, meaning it includes explicit steps to combat greenhouse gas emissions (in this case, through a carbon tax) ``.

During a debate about whether to implement a cap - and - trade policy or a carbon tax, Dan Lashof of NRDC, proponent of a cap (though an awfully mild proponent: «So I'm supposed to be here as a die - hard believer in cap - and - trade...»), had but one or two lone supporters in the large audience.

I presume you are arguing that excessive taxation is going to destroy your children's future — there's not something magical about taxing carbon as opposed to taxing property, or income, or restaurant - going.

Although I support you on advocating for a carbon tax, I disagree on your opposition to the subsidies for alternative energy and your kind of «mindless middle» mushiness about a conference that was set up specifically as a forum for the skeptics (a rather unpleasant habit they seem to be picking up from the creationists).

We need a carbon tax, collected and returned to US citizens, to force the big fossil fuel producers to get serious about alternative energy sources and move away from coal, oil and gas as quickly as possible.

The only reason we haven't heard much about the RET - in contrast to Tony Abbott's labelling of the carbon tax as the «great big tax» - is that having mandatory renewable energy targets is a bipartisan policy.

In some quarters, rhetorical support for a carbon tax is seen as a litmus test for whether policymakers are serious about climate change.

From a theoretical perspective, if one thinks about carbon taxes or permit prices as «internalizing the externality» of the damage from greenhouse gases, compensating those harmed by the externality is a logical use of any such funds, at whatever level they are applied.

Political deals (sometimes dubbed «grand bargains») to win Republican support for carbon taxes, such as the proposal by Democratic Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (RI) and Brian Schatz (HA) therefore risk alienating labor, low - income advocates and economic - justice activists, many of whom are already tepid at best about carbon tax legislation that doesn't directly invest considerable carbon revenues in a «just transition.»

Laffer has said little about carbon taxes since around 2012, however, so it's not clear if he currently (2017) qualifies as a carbon tax supporter.

Above, we looked at the effect of a cap and trade scheme, which would have about the same effect as some type of carbon tax.

This is equivalent to a $ 15 per ton carbon tax, or about 4 times as high as Europe's carbon trading price.

In what many view as a stark about - face, College Republicans across the country are endorsing a carbon tax to address climate change.

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