Tag: science

December 23, 2013 0

A carbon-reduction tax credit is a carbon tax, and that’s a good thing

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Tweet Stoats of the world can take pleasure in this proposal by outgoing senator Max Baucus to simplify the approximately one billion Amercian clean energy tax incentives and to provide instead a tax credit based on how much carbon reduction (above a threshold) is produced per unit of electricity or unit of transportation fuel. There’s no economic difference between providing a tax credit that reduces from a higher baseline, versus imposing a tax that increases from a lower baseline, so long as they’re equally comprehensive

December 14, 2013 0

Asimbonanga uMandela thina

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Eli Rabett Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid. The students are naive but great and the administrators vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional. His colleagues are smart, but they have a curious inability to see the holes that they dig for themselves.

December 10, 2013 0

The American Chemical Society on Climate Change

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Tweet Nonono, not the policy statement , well there is that, but a bunch of resources that ACS has put out there a climate science tool kit for folks to learn from and use, put together by a top notch working group with support from ACS leadership.  As part of the effort ACS held a meeting to brief staff about how to approach climate communication When a conversation turns to climate change, do you know the basic science to take part? Do you understand the far-reaching impacts of climate change and how it’s affecting you today?  Learn the answers to these questions and more. There are three professionally illustrated PowerPoint presentations which can be used in toto or from which slides can be select:  One for the public , one for educators and one for industry professionals (Powerpoint downloads).  And yes, a plug for Skeptical Science This site is very helpful for a non-climate scientist who wants to stay current with the literature on global warming and climate change