…States, setting a cap on carbon emissions and letting companies trade their allotments, failed in 2010. At the same time, Dr. Nordhaus’s model was drawing criticism for underestimating the havoc that climate change would…

byPeter Dorman (originally published at Econospeak) Carbon Gridlock Redux in Washington State A year ago—it already seems like another era—an initiative to set up a carbon tax in Washington State,…

…wisdom labels Mr McCain as a freer trader because he supports three bilateral trade agreements negotiated by the Bush administration.[1] Mr Obama, in contrast, has come out forcefully against these…

…trade has good effects, it is defined as unfree trade and when it is bad it is defined as free trade. And this when it is the exact same trade,…

…to the policy itself.  As a result, carbon pricing is hard to get enacted, when it is enacted it is often subverted and ineffective (because the carbon price falls to…

…Cap, trade, and cut the gasoline tax. That is have some of the cap and trade revenue go to the highway trust fund so the cost of gasoline stays the…

…state by state differences demonstrating national averages as mis-leading and the complexity of carbon foorprints per capita by state, and Scientific American on some objections to cap and trade models….

Yesterday, I posted about geoengineering the oceans as a promising form of carbon capture. But why do we need carbon capture at all? Can’t we just conserve our way out…

by Lloyd Alter Carbon Upfront Scope 4 emissions help me justify my flight to New Zealand and compensate for its carbon footprint. I apologize for my posts not showing up…

…and which may or may not cause more harvesting of other forests? A proper carbon budget isn’t net of anything; it’s an amount of fossil carbon we set aside for…