Here’s a round-up of some recent opinion-pieces on carbon emissions, green taxes and related topics:

Tim Harford in the FT puts an economist’s view of green taxes: 

“If we really cared about the planet we would recognise that CO2 is CO2. It does not matter where it comes from: it is all harmful.
This is where economists seem to part [...]

Oil prices were again up yesterday, after BP announced the closure of its Prudhoe Bay field to fix a pipeline leak.  See the BBC report.
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The UK Department for Transport (DfT) is under fire from a committee of MPs for their “fatalistic” attitude towards cutting emissions caused by increased travel.
The House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) was formed nearly 9 years ago and consists of 16 MPs, mostly from the Labour Party.
The EAC today released their Ninth Report, welcoming [...]

The Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England raised interest rates yesterday, the first increase in two years.  Wiith energy prices rising in Britain, there is greater threat of inflation, which the Bank hopes to head off at the pass. The BBC report is here.  
The BBC’s economic correspondent Evan Davies explained the process in very [...]

The UK’s Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has complained in a report released today that much media reporting of climate change issues is “confusing, contradictory and chaotic, and with the likely result that the public feels disempowered and uncompelled to act.”   The report identifies ten different ways the media talk about climate change, from alarmist to techno-optimism.  The [...]