“Local officials and enviros are making plans for a post-global warming America. And so are profit-seeking companies.” BY ALEXANDER ZAITCHIK / via Salon.com On the opening morning of the inaugural National Adaptation Forum, I was eating breakfast at a stand-up table in the exhibition hall when a mustachioed man of middle age plopped his cherry Danish next…
“I’m very disappointed [California] chose a half-baked system like cap-and-trade, with offsets,” said NASA climatologist James Hansen in a conversation with Climate One host Greg Dalton. He prefers a carbon fee and dividend and, in the absence of a strong carbon price, says the risks of reaching climatic tipping points that could bring catastrophic consequences…
Interview from 29 April 2013 A Price Is Right: Carbon Tax Has Very Broad, Bipartisan Support (Outside Of Congress) Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_tax