Sentences with phrase «say about carbon taxes»

- nod empathically to everything your interlocutor needs to say about carbon taxes while keeping your hands crossed;

Not exact matches

«Can I say to Australians the debate that they are hearing about a carbon tax is a debate about what Tony Abbott calls a carbon tax, which [it] will be for a limited period of time and then we will move to an emissions trading scheme.»

«We put out a letter to our customers and told them about the carbon tax effect and we were told quite clearly they were not going to accept price increases,» said Mr Northrop, who runs electrical cabling manufacturer Tycab Australia on Melbourne's outstkirts.

«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.

Rosenthal says that if carbon dioxide emissions become taxed in the future due to continuing concerns about global warming, his solar - driven catalyst for making synthetic fuel will compete even better economically with fossil fuels.

«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.

It's noteworthy (and great news) that all three of the candidates, mentioned above, say that they are seriously concerned about global warming, and all three support some form of carbon «cap - and - auction» or «cap - and - trade» system, or carbon tax.

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.

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).

Three - quarters of U.S. adults (76 %) say corporate tax incentives to encourage carbon emission reductions among businesses can make a difference, and roughly seven - in - ten (71 %) say the same about tougher fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks.

They did say negative things about the carbon tax in Australia when it was still in place.

And further, to be fair, if I came at you with a simple model and suggested that we should tax carbon based on a zero dimensional model, I'll wager that you might ask» what's that model say about sea level rise?»

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.

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?

Other than simply saying that he disagrees with his Oxford colleague, Dieter Helm, about carbon taxes, Allen doesn't provide much backup for the economic thinking behind his proposal.

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.»

«You have a Government that's silent about the fact that emissions in Australia go up, not down under the carbon tax,» he said.

You may want to check out what Canada's Auditor General has to say about the Pacific Carbon Trust — the government entity charged with collecting the carbon tax in British Columbia.

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.