Comment on Copenhagen Consensus 2012 by Rob Starkey
Bart An efficient tax is one with a very low cost to administer vs. the revenue collected. An example would be a fuel tax collected at the gas pump. An inefficient tax is one that has a high cost of...
View ArticleComment on Copenhagen Consensus 2012 by manacker
Rob Starkey Good analysis of an “efficient” and an “inefficient” tax. You also describe an “effective” and an “ineffective” tax. Bart’s proposed carbon tax is both inefficient and ineffective. It is...
View ArticleComment on Copenhagen Consensus 2012 by Bart R
m | May 23, 2012 at 3:33 pm | Wow. An argument based on the authority of Phil Jones and Girma Orssengo? I think I’ll give that one a pass, thanks....
View ArticleComment on Copenhagen Consensus 2012 by Rob Starkey
Thanks- I started to write an explanation about effective vs. ineffective taxes, but thought the effort would be wasted under the circumstances.
View ArticleComment on Time varying trend in global mean surface temperature by Peter Lang
WHT, I am not sure what you are arguing: Do you agree that your charts of the Greenland ice cores show much faster rates of warming in the past 8,000 years and even faster in the past 20,000 years than...
View ArticleComment on Time varying trend in global mean surface temperature by David Wojick
Bart, I have no doubt there are problems with the satellite data, but they are dwarfed by the deep methodological problems with the surface statistical models. The satellites are instruments doing what...
View ArticleComment on Time varying trend in global mean surface temperature by omanuel
I.e., <i> "I haven’t found any evidence of AGW in satellite-era sea surface temperature data, but I’ll keep looking"</i> is a very biased approach to observations that is sure to deceive...
View ArticleComment on Copenhagen Consensus 2012 by David Springer
The electrical grid can barely handle the load it has now. How will the electricity needed to recharge more than a token number of electric vehicles be delivered? Transmission lines cannot be stacked...
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Hi Pekka Nice to see you commenting here again. I can’t offer a solution, just a simple observation based on prior employment in long range economic planning. Plans with equivalent NPVs can have...
View ArticleComment on Time varying trend in global mean surface temperature by Edim
To believe in such accuracy of the ice core gas data is mind-bogling to me. Especially when one knows about the problems with it and the suppression of the non-300-ppm measurements.
View ArticleComment on Time varying trend in global mean surface temperature by Girma
WebHubTelescope It is you who plotted that model until 2200. I plotted it ONLY to establish the climate pattern of the 20th century and for predictions of ONLY the next couple of decades. The graph you...
View ArticleComment on Time varying trend in global mean surface temperature by Bart R
David Wojick | May 24, 2012 at 9:31 am | I can grant that there are problems with all the data; as there are three satellite datasets in some degree of disagreement, and the length of their record is...
View ArticleComment on Time varying trend in global mean surface temperature by Bob Tisdale
omanuel says: “…is a very biased approach to observations that is sure to deceive the observer eventually.” Please clarify your comment.
View ArticleComment on Time varying trend in global mean surface temperature by...
HADCET summers .009C/decade http://sunshinehours.wordpress.com/2012/05/14/hadcet-june-july-and-august-trend-for-350-years-is-a-measly-009c-per-decade/ 2007 and 2011 were below the long term mean.
View ArticleComment on Time varying trend in global mean surface temperature by Girma
Web It is you who plotted that model until 2200. I plotted it ONLY to establish the climate pattern of the 20th century and for predictions of ONLY the next couple of decades. The graph you plotted is...
View ArticleComment on Copenhagen Consensus 2012 by Bart R
David Springer | May 24, 2012 at 9:35 am | How odd. So many in the field say that rather than causing capacity issues, the storage capacity of electric vehicles tends to level demand by off-peak...
View ArticleComment on Copenhagen Consensus 2012 by Bart R
Sony | May 24, 2012 at 3:56 am | Not everyone _does_ benefit from the lowered price. That’s the fly in the ointment of subsidy. Such benefits, if they ever are real, are transitory and suppress the...
View ArticleComment on Time varying trend in global mean surface temperature by Jim Cripwell
David, you write “The satellite observations say this dominance hypothesis is false, not that radiative physics is false” Boy am I gald to see someone else writing this. To me, it is so obviously true,...
View ArticleComment on Time varying trend in global mean surface temperature by P.E.
Even if you concede that the warming is as high is they say, the statement is still unfalsifiable. Not a good way to start a scientific paper, with an unfalsifiable claim.
View ArticleComment on Heartburn at Heartland by Michael
Deeds are often preceeded by words. Even if the speaker isn’t the perp, there is a certain role played by making such things an acceptable part of the discourse. Good to see that Judith finds these...
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