Comments on: On climate change, Romney is pretty consistent http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/2011/08/25/on-climate-change-romney-is-pretty-consistent/ Politics and policy from inside Washington Sun, 07 Apr 2013 21:23:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: seattlesh http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/2011/08/25/on-climate-change-romney-is-pretty-consistent/comment-page-1/#comment-13216 seattlesh Thu, 01 Sep 2011 15:13:01 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/?p=14516#comment-13216 Sounds like Mitt doesn't know much period. Sounds like Mitt doesn’t know much period.

]]> By: DexterDolittle http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/2011/08/25/on-climate-change-romney-is-pretty-consistent/comment-page-1/#comment-13173 DexterDolittle Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:42:05 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/?p=14516#comment-13173 Bjorn Lomborg's reasoning goes squarely against the widely accepted dictum of prevention being far less costly than cleaning up the subsequent mess and Romney, ever worried about cost, should understand this. But why not go with Bjorn, if it'll save a few jobs that any reasonable analysis of real environmental costs would conclude should disappear. Going with a carbon tax can not be even remotely characterized as a market mechanism, but has the advantage of not forcing industry to cap it's emissions as in a sensible cap and trade system. It's pretty clear that those in office and those seeking it, cannot be relied on to do anything sensible and in good time about climate change. It must fall to the individual to do something to save their environment, perhaps by participating in a carbon cap and trade system such as the one offered at catagori.com. Bjorn Lomborg’s reasoning goes squarely against the widely accepted dictum of prevention being far less costly than cleaning up the subsequent mess and Romney, ever worried about cost, should understand this. But why not go with Bjorn, if it’ll save a few jobs that any reasonable analysis of real environmental costs would conclude should disappear.

Going with a carbon tax can not be even remotely characterized as a market mechanism, but has the advantage of not forcing industry to cap it’s emissions as in a sensible cap and trade system.

It’s pretty clear that those in office and those seeking it, cannot be relied on to do anything sensible and in good time about climate change. It must fall to the individual to do something to save their environment, perhaps by participating in a carbon cap and trade system such as the one offered at catagori.com.

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