Climate News
Gregory Mankiw
Economics Professor, Harvard University
Former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (2003-2005)
http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2015/08/how-not-to-pass-carbon-tax.html
As long-time readers of this blog know, I have long advocated greater use of Pigovian taxes, such as taxes on carbon emissions. Such taxes can correct incentives by aligning private and social costs, and the revenue from such taxes can be used to reduce other, distortionary taxes.
New York Times Editorial Board
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/opinion/the-case-for-a-carbon-tax.html
In a welcome development, businesses are asking world leaders to do more to address climate change. This week, the top executives of six large European oil and gas companies called for a tax on carbon emissions.
Irwin Stelzer
Senior Fellow & Director of Hudson Institute's Economic Policy Studies Group
Former Resident Scholar & Director of Regulatory Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/even-climate-skeptics-should-support-carbon-tax_940637.html#.Vd9KgzZEvnQ.email
The ice is finally melting. Not the Arctic ice, although that might be melting too. I mean the frozen position critics of the global warming hysterics have been taking.
Bloomberg reports that researchers at Yale have unveiled a new interactive map that estimates public opinion on global warming right down to the county level. In fact, 63 percent of Americans believe that the globe is warming. Check out the article here.
