Comments on: Bush to World: Nothing up my Sleeve http://climateprogress.org/2007/09/23/bush-climate-summit-delay/ The Latest on Climate Science, Solutions, and Politics Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:27:35 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Ronald http://climateprogress.org/2007/09/23/bush-climate-summit-delay/#comment-5830 Ronald Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:03:13 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2007/09/23/bush-climate-summit-delay/#comment-5830 The comments about granny paying for something going on in China is why we shouldn't have country to country funds for carbon reductions. It's bad politics. Cap and trade world wide does that. Which is why we should just have tax trade, granny pays more for a carbon tax, but then pays less in property and sales taxes. To get to carbon capture and susquestration, we almost have to have a carbon tax to get it paid for anyway. The comments about granny paying for something going on in China is why we shouldn’t have country to country funds for carbon reductions. It’s bad politics. Cap and trade world wide does that. Which is why we should just have tax trade, granny pays more for a carbon tax, but then pays less in property and sales taxes.

To get to carbon capture and susquestration, we almost have to have a carbon tax to get it paid for anyway.

]]> By: David B. Benson http://climateprogress.org/2007/09/23/bush-climate-summit-delay/#comment-5810 David B. Benson Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:38:39 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2007/09/23/bush-climate-summit-delay/#comment-5810 llewelly --- Thanks, I went and checked that indeed that's the way my Firefox is set. john --- I already have! And I agree. llewelly — Thanks, I went and checked that indeed that’s the way my Firefox is set.

john — I already have! And I agree.

]]> By: john http://climateprogress.org/2007/09/23/bush-climate-summit-delay/#comment-5801 john Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:07:45 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2007/09/23/bush-climate-summit-delay/#comment-5801 David: You gotta look at both sides of the equation. Granny's choices are: 1) pay a little more for each unit of energy she uses, but use less, thereby coming close to breaking even, or 2) pay her share of trillions for levies, sea walls, drought relief, protection from displaced refugees, more expensive food, water storage as winter snowpack disappears, etc. etc. etc. When you assess costs, you've got to compare the costs of innaction with the costs of action to come up with a net cost -- any way you look at it, Granny pays more -- a heck of a lot more -- if we don't act ot mitigate climate change than if we do. David:

You gotta look at both sides of the equation.

Granny’s choices are: 1) pay a little more for each unit of energy she uses, but use less, thereby coming close to breaking even, or
2) pay her share of trillions for levies, sea walls, drought relief, protection from displaced refugees, more expensive food, water storage as winter snowpack disappears, etc. etc. etc.

When you assess costs, you’ve got to compare the costs of innaction with the costs of action to come up with a net cost — any way you look at it, Granny pays more — a heck of a lot more — if we don’t act ot mitigate climate change than if we do.

]]> By: llewelly http://climateprogress.org/2007/09/23/bush-climate-summit-delay/#comment-5798 llewelly Sun, 23 Sep 2007 23:15:05 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2007/09/23/bush-climate-summit-delay/#comment-5798 David, this website has never remembered my name & email .... unless I select Edit : Preferences : Privacy : Remember what I enter in forms and the search bar . If you use IE you'll find an equivalent setting in a different place. So I think it is a browser issue. David, this website has never remembered my name & email …. unless I select Edit : Preferences : Privacy : Remember what I enter in forms and the search bar .
If you use IE you’ll find an equivalent setting in a different place. So I think it is a browser issue.

]]> By: David B. Benson http://climateprogress.org/2007/09/23/bush-climate-summit-delay/#comment-5797 David B. Benson Sun, 23 Sep 2007 21:07:54 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2007/09/23/bush-climate-summit-delay/#comment-5797 Well, carbon capture and sequestration is going to have to be part of any solution. And eventually, one way or the other, Granny is going to have to help pay for it. Web site question: Up to now, the site has managed to remember my name and e-mail address. But not just this post. Needs fixing? Well, carbon capture and sequestration is going to have to be part of any solution. And eventually, one way or the other, Granny is going to have to help pay for it.

Web site question: Up to now, the site has managed to remember my name and e-mail address. But not just this post. Needs fixing?

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