Posts tagged…Emission
What the carbon caps will cost
Sun, Feb 08 2009
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The Reserve Bank of Australia's quarterly Statement on Monetary Policy (6 Feb, 09) contains the latest estimate—using the Treasury model, is my guess:
"Overall, assuming an emissions permit price of $25 per tonne of CO2-e, it is estimated that the net result will be to reduce GDP growth by…
Read more…Another Galilean ‘dissenter’
Fri, Jul 18 2008David Evans, ex-GreenHouse Office:
"The world has spent $50 billion on global warming since 1990, and we have not found any actual evidence that carbon emissions cause global warming … Computer models and theoretical calculations are not evidence, they are just theory." extract from: The Australian
Two reasons for caution in climate mitigation
Sun, Mar 23 2008
I can see two reasons for caution about the dramatic action on climate change advocated by the Garnaut Review. First, statistical analysis of temperature trends contradicts claims (from the Review among others) that increases over the last decade are "on track" to meet or exceed IPCC projections. Second, the CO2-linked theories of climate change lack basic plausibility and recent observations…