tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post362503263152213037..comments2024-03-19T03:14:04.172-04:00Comments on Rabett Run: My take - The Carbon Tax Is Dead, Long Live the Carbon Tax?EliRabetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957002964638398767noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-36215770783985990992019-09-05T06:06:54.969-04:002019-09-05T06:06:54.969-04:00Amazing blog, thanks for this. Get the best Websit...Amazing blog, thanks for this. Get the best Website Designing and Development Services in India.<br /><a href="https://www.dialwebindia.com" rel="nofollow">Website Designing Company in India</a>Dial Web Indiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12283901994893980356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-86634764293680618512019-01-14T09:43:57.988-05:002019-01-14T09:43:57.988-05:00The global temperature in 1995 was higher than it ...The global temperature in 1995 was higher than it was last year... 58.69°F (NOAA).<br /><br /><br />1995 hottest, NY Times:<br /><br />http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/04/world/95-is-hottest-year-on-record-as-the-global-trend-resumes.html<br /><br />"The average temperature was 58.72 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the British data, seven-hundredths of a degree higher than the previous record, established in 1990. The British figures, based on land and sea measurements around the world, are one of two sets of long-term data by which surface temperature trends are being tracked.<br />The other, maintained by the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, shows the average 1995 temperature at 59.7 degrees, slightly ahead of 1990 as the warmest year since record-keeping began in 1866. But the difference is within the margin of sampling error, and the two years essentially finished neck and neck."Broadlandshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01443406808093781496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-20824401007442206822018-12-26T11:31:44.439-05:002018-12-26T11:31:44.439-05:00Thanks, David, same to you.Thanks, David, same to you.Barton Paul Levensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07630802738456749652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-36273586333591043152018-12-26T01:04:17.768-05:002018-12-26T01:04:17.768-05:00Season's greetings.Season's greetings. David B. Bensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15914145623997712113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-58538777419495601102018-12-16T15:30:57.518-05:002018-12-16T15:30:57.518-05:00It would be nice if some of the revenue generated ...It would be nice if some of the revenue generated could be used to run teams of engineers who could assist companies to become carbon efficient: that could make the state a more attractive place to run a business in given that, eventually, achieving high carbon efficiency will become a necessity.Andy Mitchellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14975141756383175819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-17911189492563373312018-12-14T08:26:33.456-05:002018-12-14T08:26:33.456-05:00Seitz, I'd respond to your post if I could fig...Seitz, I'd respond to your post if I could figure out what the hell you're trying to say, but I can't.<br />Barton Paul Levensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07630802738456749652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-81806076811360805022018-12-14T01:13:38.466-05:002018-12-14T01:13:38.466-05:00Blogger Barton Paul Levenson said...
"Suppose...Blogger Barton Paul Levenson said...<br />"Supposedly, there are 43,000 separate sects of Christianity"<br /><br />43,000 preterite sheep per shepherd seems about average in an election year. THE CLIMATE WARShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02578106673226403151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-20109462559743777332018-12-07T08:53:46.259-05:002018-12-07T08:53:46.259-05:00Minor correction from Washington State.
The 2016 ...Minor correction from Washington State.<br /><br />The 2016 carbon tax was promised to be revenue-neutral, but was actually revenue negative.<br /><br />Rebates and other tax cuts bundled with the carbon tax were significantly larger than the carbon tax.<br />Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07567197089095711546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-89018475718835072372018-12-04T08:46:48.692-05:002018-12-04T08:46:48.692-05:00Many thanks Brian for your response at https://ohb...Many thanks Brian for your response at https://ohbwaa.blogspot.com/2018/11/climate-bets-evans-vs-schmidt.html#comments , and Eli for your pre-emptive one earlier. <br /><br />I've added a couple of responses to David Evans' reply plus a chart that extends the trendline forward from 1987-2006. Which suggests Brian that, all things being equal, you're good for the 2nd and 3rd bet periods - even if we all lose in the scheme of things.Hautboishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00727277002120815591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-84095134105602927932018-12-02T00:47:42.989-05:002018-12-02T00:47:42.989-05:00Apologies for the delay, and I responded in a ver...Apologies for the delay, and I responded in a very predictable fashion to the climate bet blog post.Brian Schmidthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06172685194686202391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-91654924649563491252018-11-25T18:44:55.013-05:002018-11-25T18:44:55.013-05:00"Supposedly, there are 43,000 separate sects ..."Supposedly, there are 43,000 separate sects of Christianity"<br /><br />BPL: I've also seen 2200, 3300, 30,000, and 33,000. The number just keeps on increasing. I've never seen any justification for the number.<br /><br />But let's assume it's true. It's also true that 90% of Christians just belong to twelve or so of those "sects," all of which recognize the others as legitimate Christians. The two biggest, Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy, have intercommunion.Barton Paul Levensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07630802738456749652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-71084063030564739612018-11-25T12:26:55.995-05:002018-11-25T12:26:55.995-05:00Supposedly, there are 43,000 separate sects of Chr...Supposedly, there are 43,000 separate sects of Christianity. Double that number for proposed carbon taxes. Everybody has their own cafeteria version.<br /><br />There have been quite a few variations enacted in the real world. Most have been outright failures. Not a single one can be said to have been properly proven to be effective. So says the NREL, which says there are only a very few properly done analyses, and those have shown no significant effect.<br /><br />And why would we expect them to work? Almost all of them allow cost shifting onto consumers, who have zero influence on macro decisions involving renewable energy. Many are actually touted as the cat's meow because they give more money back to most consumers than they paid. So much for the ineluctable efficiency of so-called Pigouvian taxes.<br /><br />Meanwhile, back at the ranch, there is absolutely no guarantee, and certainly no documentation that any carbon tax has ever resulted in the only thing that must be done if we are to solve AGW: build and deploy new renewable energy infrastructure. Not only has it never been documented - it's never even been looked at.<br /><br />And another thing that has never even been looked at: Would any carbon tax be better at building and deploying new renewable energy infrastructure than would a simple and robust program of increasing renewable energy subsidies well beyond what they are currently? Just asking, because every single dime spent on a RE subsidy results in a dime's worth of new RE infrastructure being deployed.Gingerbakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14211637630936981883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-45754534061397893032018-11-25T08:29:31.925-05:002018-11-25T08:29:31.925-05:00Brian will probably answer when he recovers from t...Brian will probably answer when he recovers from the holiday, but until then<br /><br />https://rabett.blogspot.com/2018/01/climate-betting-update-dog-bites-man.html<br /><br />Best<br />Eli<br /><br />Rabett Run, where your questions are answered before you ask them.<br /><br />For continued service, donate. The button is on the top leftEliRabetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07957002964638398767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-90135374680536779552018-11-24T17:02:18.167-05:002018-11-24T17:02:18.167-05:00Very O/T Brian, but just to say that I've writ...Very O/T Brian, but just to say that I've written up your 2007 bet with David Evans, here:<br />https://ohbwaa.blogspot.com/2018/11/climate-bets-evans-vs-schmidt.html<br /><br />David Evans has given his thoughts on how it's going. Would you like to respond and / or give your own views? Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18130669188694640303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-13451055026536276352018-11-22T20:40:04.149-05:002018-11-22T20:40:04.149-05:00Dear Christna
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