A group of climate modelers have found some counter-intuitive results from eliminating the world’s trees. Apparently, the impact of forests partly depends on which latitudes they are in. Report from The Economist:
“When Dr Bala ordered global clearcutting, the model calculated that the atmosphere’s carbon dioxide levels would roughly double by 2100. [...]
Yet another new blog in the USA — this one devoted to promoting the idea of a carbon tax. It’s hard to imagine groups lobbying IN FAVOUR of a tax, but that shows the concern which people have regarding the possibility and effects of [tagclimate change[/tag]. We, however, would prefer an emissions [...]
In our part of the blogosphere, dealing with carbon emissions trading, we’ve not found many other blogs. We’ve just encountered one which is new to us: The New Carbon Cycle. Being the work of Scott Deatherage, an environmental lawyer based in Dallas TX, it naturally enough focuses on US developments in carbon [...]
US oil major ConocoPhillips has become the first US oil company to support publicly mandatory caps on emissions. Here is the company’s press-release:
“HOUSTON, April 11, 2007 — ConocoPhillips [NYSE:COP] today announced its support for a mandatory national framework to address greenhouse gas emissions and has joined the U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), a [...]
The Financial Times “undercover economist”, Tim Harford, reports on the differences between emissions trading schemes and carbon taxes, in this article. He declares in favour of a tax, since a tax may be more readily altered than a trading scheme, as circumstances change.
“The uncertainty about next year’s emissions is not very [...]
