Comments on: A Bipartisan Climate Bill in Partisan Times? http://realclimateeconomics.org/wp/archives/108 Economics in an era of climate change: designing just solutions to crisis Fri, 11 May 2012 13:20:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Brad Johnson http://realclimateeconomics.org/wp/archives/108/comment-page-1#comment-26 Brad Johnson Tue, 13 Jul 2010 01:22:57 +0000 http://realclimateeconomics.org/wp/?p=108#comment-26 Is the point of this blog to be realistic about economics but unrealistic about politics? Is the point of this blog to be realistic about economics but unrealistic about politics?

]]> By: Tim Maher http://realclimateeconomics.org/wp/archives/108/comment-page-1#comment-24 Tim Maher Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:40:43 +0000 http://realclimateeconomics.org/wp/?p=108#comment-24 I really like how simple the CLEAR Act is...basically just a giant economy-wide Cap. However, the initial delay in emission reductions goes against everything that the latest science tells us that we need to do. The Collins/Cantwell bill adheres to the more traditional (and outdated) economic view that climate change mitigation should start slowly and pick up speed as we move further into the future...the science tells us that this is a bad idea. For a brief analysis comparing the different emission-reduction targets of proposals in Congress, check out this WRI report: http://pdf.wri.org/usclimatetargets_2010-06-08.pdf I really like how simple the CLEAR Act is…basically just a giant economy-wide Cap.
However, the initial delay in emission reductions goes against everything that the latest science tells us that we need to do. The Collins/Cantwell bill adheres to the more traditional (and outdated) economic view that climate change mitigation should start slowly and pick up speed as we move further into the future…the science tells us that this is a bad idea.

For a brief analysis comparing the different emission-reduction targets of proposals in Congress, check out this WRI report:
http://pdf.wri.org/usclimatetargets_2010-06-08.pdf

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