Lord Deben
Conservative member of the House of Lords, UK Parliament
Successful businessman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO8f-zTEhpE
The Key Role in Conservatives Taxing Carbon
How Not to Pass a Carbon Tax
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.
The Case for a Carbon Tax
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.
Even Climate Skeptics Should Support a Carbon Tax: Here's why.
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.