Comment on Conservative perspectives on climate change by Rob Starkey
Max- what is it about people who are for individual liberty and a small efficient government that makes you so angy? Have you always been prejudiced?
View ArticleComment on Conservative perspectives on climate change by hunter
Michael, You are doing a great job on little encouragment. Why should I change wwhat is working so well?
View ArticleComment on Conservative perspectives on climate change by Rob Starkey
Max– so now you seem to be shown to be a prejudiced individual who knows little about economics. Social security in the US is little more that a pyrimid scheme and is not self funded.
View ArticleComment on Conservative perspectives on climate change by hunter
I think the better term for the “CO2 tax” is “tax on living”. Our governing classes are so far off base that they have deluded themselves into thinking that basically taxing breathing itself is the...
View ArticleComment on Conservative perspectives on climate change by manacker
One can use ad hom attacks on Lord Monckton or question his “gravitas” as a card-carrying climatologist, but what he has said makes absolute sense. Attack the message if you will – but don’t fall into...
View ArticleComment on Conservative perspectives on climate change by Pekka Pirilä
Rob, I haven’t suggested anything so far in this thread. Whether introducing a carbon tax will ultimately be good or bad for the U.S. economy depends on the future development. It’s near therm effect...
View ArticleComment on Conservative perspectives on climate change by manacker
“A fan of more discourse” Your ad hom slur of Czech President, Václav Klaus, misses the point. Apparently you can only attack the messenger, but have nothing worthwhile to comment on his message in the...
View ArticleComment on Conservative perspectives on climate change by Rob Starkey
Pekka- It near term impact in the US would be to have fewer funds available for spending on other activities and thereby it would have an immediate negative impact on the US economy. Now if there was...
View ArticleComment on Conservative perspectives on climate change by MarkB
I was disappointed to see the comment on the Cape Wind project. The price for electricity from the Cape Wind project came in at 100% above current generation. The state Attorney General took the bull...
View ArticleComment on Conservative perspectives on climate change by lolwot
Well I am no fan of the pope, I regard religion as a collection of old wives tales. But the butler story has no relevance to climate other than stolen documents.
View ArticleComment on Conservative perspectives on climate change by Pekka Pirilä
Rob I didn’t propose that the funds collected should be sent out from US. Why do you think that there were less funds available?
View ArticleComment on Conservative perspectives on climate change by A fan of *MORE*...
OK. Václav Klaus' lectures are scientifically irrelevant, morally wrong, economically short-sighted, and ideology-dominated … <a...
View ArticleComment on Conservative perspectives on climate change by gbaikie
“It’s near term effect would be making energy consuming activities more expensive relative to other activities. If these other activities will be of greater value in the future speeding up the...
View ArticleComment on Conservative perspectives on climate change by Rob Starkey
Pekka There would be less funds available for the consumer to spend on other things if they had to spend more on energy. This is especially true of lower income consumers.
View ArticleComment on Conservative perspectives on climate change by NW
Lolwot, I’ve done that (posted criticism to WUWT from an academic domain) with no apparent problem, other than some light banter.
View ArticleComment on Conservative perspectives on climate change by Peter Lang
NW What, exactly, is so much worse about a tax on carbon than a tax on labor, or capital, or whatever? However, you did not mention the issue of the compliance cost of measuring and monitoring CO2...
View ArticleComment on What separates science from non-science? by Fanof Dr. Curry
I think the social sciences in general are sciences: http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/expclass.php Sometimes they meet the label of “soft”sciences and sometimes not, depending upon the...
View ArticleComment on Conservative perspectives on climate change by treyg
If we’re going to tax (supposedly) negative externalities such as carbon, “clean energy” can’t get off free. We are offshoring pollution — think neodymium for wind turbines mined in Mongolia, solar...
View ArticleComment on Conservative perspectives on climate change by NW
Wag, look at the data: http://reason.com/blog/2010/11/29/the-remarkably-stable-amount-o You are forgetting that payroll tax ends at a relatively low level of income (I mean relative to the poeple who...
View ArticleComment on Conservative perspectives on climate change by NW
I said “Sure, to tax any activity, there are better and worse ways of doing it.” See earlier comments by Pekka and Faustino. I am willing to go along with a carbon content (fuel-based) tax to avoid the...
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