Sentences with phrase «record on the carbon tax»

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I would point out that I am not just a casual sceptic, but take the time to attend anti carbon tax protests, have a submission on record with the joint select committee reviewing the carbon tax and read and comment on a number of sceptic blogs.

Most major oil companies have gone on record preferring carbon taxes over increased regulations.

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.»

The unpopularity of the BC carbon tax — which, Jones points out, boosted fuel costs when oil prices were at a record high — could put a similar crimp on the provincial party.

Update 2016: NASA's Lead «Global Warming» scientist goes political: Calls for a carbon tax — NASA's «global warming» scientist in charge of keeping temperature records admits his bias: «We have to have a price on carbon because right now it's still free to put carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

■» European countries and Australia are backing away from their emission reductions policies as they realize their economic cost and political unpopularity» Do not discount the Gallic folly... as Hollande and his minions will implement a carbon tax as a bargain with the EU tolerating their abysmal record on deficit reduction...

The Hill (10/26/12) reports: «A conservative think tank will host a forum next month on carbon tax proposals — and this time it's on the record... The American Enterprise Institute is the venue for the Nov. 13 event on the economics of carbon taxes, which AEI is hosting with two other think tanks, the Brookings Institution and Resources for the Future, and the International Monetary Fund.»