No, this is not a post about what who believes what about science (snore). This is a post about the economic and political assumptions that guide thinking about climate policy.
Andy
Revkin helpfully points to a new report (PDF)
from the Information
Technology and Information Foundation, which seeks to expose 10
myths of global climate change. Here they are:
1) Higher prices on greenhouse gases are enough to drive the transition to a clean economy
Reality: Better price signals are helpful, but not sufficient in significantly reducing GHG.
2) The U.S. can make major contributions to solving climate change on its own
Reality: The energy needs of the rest of the world will result in them producing the lion’s share of GHG; any solution must be one that is able to be adopted by every nation in the absence of regulation or energy taxes.
3) Cap-and-trade is a sustainable global solution
Reality: As Copenhagen showed, a global agreement is not likely, and the only solution that can meet 50 the percent reduction of GHG is making non-carbon alternatives as cheap and functional as fossil fuels.
To read the full, original article click on this link: Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Ten Myths of Global Warming and the Green Economy
Author: Roger Pielke Jr.
