«We now need the Scottish government to update its own alternative, North Sea
oil tax scenarios, based on the latest information available, in order to judge how these might affect Scotland's future fiscal balance.»
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) ``.