Aha! I've just been reading the WBCSD policy to 2050 report. It suggests that Lomborg is just flat wrong. Comments here: http://fergusbrown.wordpress.com/2007/06/13/mitigation-anti-development-no-sustainable-yes/
On 13 Jun, 01:55, James Annan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Ultimate global warming wager may be an interesting potential > > solution: > > >http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/comment/story.html?i... > > > What do you think, James? > > I think it's interesting in principle, although I doubt his numbers are > reasonable (that's based as much on my judgement of the author, as from > a quick eyeballing of the article). AIUI all of the reasonable economic > analyses suggest an initially modest carbon tax which ramps up over > time. Making this conditional on continued warming (assuming a sensible > smoothing/averaging) isn't really much of a condition in my view. As > I've tried to argue before, the important thing is to get this process > moving, rather than argue endlessly about such trivial as the "right" > stabilisation level in 2100 (as if our great-grandchildren are going to > care what their ignorant great-grandparents thought). > > Actually, on a second glance there are lots of problems with the details > of the proposal, but perhaps the biggest one is that the whole idea > gives way too much attention to the denialist rump who are essentially > dead in the water anyway. I don't think a carbon tax needs Ross > McKitrick's approval. > > James --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
