According to the paid propagandist Joe Romm at Climate Progress: Humanity is choosing to destroy a livable climate, warn 18 of the world’s leading climate experts in a new study.
Tom Nelson asks on Twitter: Since when are these 18 some of the world’s leading climate experts?
Of course, there’s a call for a carbon tax to go along with that warning.
Economic efficiency would be improved by a rising carbon fee.
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A rising carbon fee is the sine qua non for fossil fuel phase out, but
not enough by itself.
Absolute madness. What alternate reality do these 18 people live in? Or maybe it is simply that none of them have ever held a job that didn’t depend on tax revenue?
They are clamoring not only for a carbon tax, but also for green technology. But, real world data they cite suggests they are living in a dream world:
![Figure 14. World energy consumption for indicated fuels, which excludes wood [4]. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0081648.g014](http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/hansen_pols_windsolar.jpg?quality=83)
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0081648.g014
An economic analysis indicates that a tax beginning at $15/tCO2 and rising $10/tCO2 each year would reduce emissions in the U.S. by 30% within 10 years [241]. Such a reduction is more than 10 times as great as the carbon content of tar sands oil carried by the proposed Keystone XL pipeline (830,000 barrels/day) [242]. Reduced oil demand would be nearly six times the pipeline capacity [241], thus the carbon fee is far more effective than the proposed pipeline.
I will give them props for calling for more nuclear energy, but the rest of the paper is nothing more than a climate activist’s wet dream.
You can read it here: http://www.plos.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/pone-8-12-hansen.pdf
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Mike M, see my comment above and
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/04/opinion/the-poor-need-cheap-fossil-fuels.html?_r=0
Deaths are in the millions already, the premature deaths of the worlds poor who heat their homes and cook with wood – the fuel of choice of the watermelons – kerosene and charcoal. Drax the biggest coal-fired electricity plant in Europe was built be a rational generation in the middle of the north east England coal fields. At enormous expense – to the poor of UK – it is being converted to burn wood imported from the US – facepalm.
I think we should replace the climate scientists with astrologers. They’re cheaper and just as accurate.
Carbon taxes are the most injurious “climate change” program for poor people. Not only do they make it difficult for them to heat their homes or buy gasoline to drive to work, everything that moves on motor fuel goes up in cost, further squeezing them – and people are DYING because of them. Of course, the wealthy left-wingers don’t feel the effect of these taxes, and they are actually likely to profit from them on otherwise uneconomic investments in bird choppers and other such environmentally ruinous and destructive sorts of “renewable” energy. Another example of how wealth redistribution schemes move wealth upward to the rich, not down to the poor.
Leo Geiger says:
December 4, 2013 at 4:48 am
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Listen to them? “Brian Ferguson, chief executive officer of Calgary-based oil-sands producer Cenovus, said last year that a carbon tax is “probably the most effective means of regulating and addressing the cost of carbon.” Why? They are simply trying to survive the current political environment and procure government approved price increases. Economically it is destructive, and the only savings of energy is in that destruction of life quality and jobs.
Abundant inexpensive Energy is the life blood of EVERY economy. It is the quickest way to reduce populations, clean up the environment (deal with real environmental concerns) promote jobs and peace.
Leo Geiger 4:48 am
Apparently you are not able to read what is being said in what you quote.
The man is essentially saying that it is better to be whipped than to have your head cut off. Ideally i am sure he would prefer not to be pointlessly punished at all.
Eugene WR Gallun
Leo Geiger – the BC carbon tax is the usual leftist BS but this time by the “right” (different moniker same BS) whereby certain sectors e.g. schools and hospital have to suck up the tax and spend policies whereas other sectors e.g. the tourist industry gets the benefit of the subsidies. A good -bad- example being a luxury Whistler hotel using public money to instal a geo-thermal heating/cooling system.
Private business, saving private profits, with public money, that could be spent helping to educate or improve the health of the poor or, hell, just left in the pockets of the average citizen where it belongs.