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Tag: global warming

  • Are Carbon Taxes Another False Solution?

    - by Mike Ewall, Ener­gy Jus­tice Network Octo­ber 2014 Car­bon tax­es are emerg­ing as a major top-down cli­mate solu­tion envi­ros would like to see come out of Con­gress.  Plen­ty of “tax car­bon” signs were present in the 400,000-strong People’s Cli­mate March in New York City last month.  Even U.N. Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al Ban Ki-moon is urg­ing nations to adopt…

  • Biomass Causes Problematic Emissions Too

    - by Richard Ball, August 31, 2014, The Wash­ing­ton Post The Post’s Aug. 28 edi­to­r­i­al “An answer to glob­al warm­ing” made good points about a car­bon tax. How­ev­er, a seri­ous prob­lem that was not men­tioned is how to deal with adverse impacts from bio­mass ener­gy sources, such as burn­ing wood in pow­er plants. Most pro­posed car­bon con­trol schemes…