tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post6662950654464221842..comments2024-03-24T11:01:27.668-04:00Comments on Resource Insights: Climate change: The feel-good catastropheKurt Cobbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05330759091950742285noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-90540814792729463662018-08-05T11:42:18.051-04:002018-08-05T11:42:18.051-04:00I’ve been in favour of TEQs or C&S for years (...I’ve been in favour of TEQs or C&S for years (not, note, cap and trade). It would have solved so many problems but of course by now it’s too late.<br /><br />I’ve also said for a long time that no-one will do anything <i>at all</i> until it’s too late…<br /><br />Thanks for your articles, KC.DavidThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00574548616439154876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-5064552100664370142018-03-06T10:44:42.316-05:002018-03-06T10:44:42.316-05:00The dilemma is even worse. Climate change does no...The dilemma is even worse. Climate change does not happen equally. It warms the higher latitudes more than the poles and the winter more than the summer. Overall impact is to make the cold less cold, rather than hot hotter. As humans are tropical animals in origin this is physically appealing on a visceral level.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-8596329932054464892018-03-01T00:28:10.824-05:002018-03-01T00:28:10.824-05:00Kurt, you are very smart. You see the big picture....Kurt, you are very smart. You see the big picture. <br /><br />We need you in the farefree public transit campaign. It's a solution that also reduces bureaucracy. Cars promote sprawl and growth. What we need is degrowth. <br /><br />Carbon tax will be hopelessly complicated and unfair. Please join us.fpteditorshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04620275872850435922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-67240615159484746132018-02-28T08:36:48.143-05:002018-02-28T08:36:48.143-05:00Cap and trade works if the market is big enough an...Cap and trade works if the market is big enough and everybody participates. Sulphur dioxide pollution was dramatically reduced with a cap and trade program in the U.S.in the 1990s.Kim Alan Chapmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12718051783997484962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-43997362871278317772018-02-27T22:12:02.359-05:002018-02-27T22:12:02.359-05:00Jon was a classmate. We lived in the same dorm and...Jon was a classmate. We lived in the same dorm and hung around with the same people. So, I got to know him as a result.Kurt Cobbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05330759091950742285noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-14078079108045853892018-02-27T22:00:40.605-05:002018-02-27T22:00:40.605-05:00I didn't know that Jon Cooksey was your colleg...I didn't know that Jon Cooksey was your college roommate.Chris Kuykendallnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-24510673387066179852018-02-26T10:59:24.984-05:002018-02-26T10:59:24.984-05:00I live in Northern Virginia and was completely dis...I live in Northern Virginia and was completely disturbed by last week's weather. Everyone was loving it. At one point I asked a coworker, a mother of a small child, "Doesn't climate change bother you?" She looked totally surprised like how could anyone be serious in such gorgeous weather? Even after 10 years of understanding our predicament, I am continually disappointed by intelligent people's stupidity.Karennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-10668162443012323882018-02-25T16:32:52.790-05:002018-02-25T16:32:52.790-05:00A further complication is to do with agriculture a...A further complication is to do with agriculture and gardening. I live in central Virginia and we have experienced the warm days that you talk about. We have also had a fair amount of gentle, soaking rain (and hence a fine crop of weeds already). A few days ago, early in the morning, the temperatures were mild, there was a slight fog and everything was moist. It put me in mind of Keats’, “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness”. But we are in late winter, not autumn.<br /><br />During the last three days I have been planting cool-weather vegetables such as peas and carrots. But our official last frost date is April 15th. If we do get some very cold weather in March the plants will not grow properly. It is increasingly difficult to know when to plant.<br /><br />I am also concerned about the upcoming summer. Our summers are always hot and dry, but last year’s was worse than usual. What will this year bring?<br /><br />These concerns might seem to be minor in the big scheme of things. But they are representative of the challenges that we will be facing.<br /><br />Still, we are fortunate. I am sure that the residents of Cape Town and many other cities would welcome the weather that we have had in the last couple of weeks. And our daffodils look terrific.<br />ChemEnghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05168251215012150114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-31323707619345594072018-02-25T14:20:48.658-05:002018-02-25T14:20:48.658-05:00I have always doubted that a carbon tax would acco...I have always doubted that a carbon tax would accomplish anything at all, other then permit polluting industries to go on polluting (and let a few people get even richer). The reason is it does not address the core problem in any meaningful way. They can simply trade their carbon allowances or sell them. This permits continued emissions of atmospheric pollution.<br /><br />Monetizing pollution will do very little as the evidence already has shown. Industry will always find a way to pollute and has the resources to do so. This too is "the feel good catastrophe" as many things today are. Humans are quick to deceive themselves into believing they are "doing good" when in reality, they are still doing what they've always done.<br /><br />In this case, pollute. Burn fossil fuels. Even "renewable energy" burns fossil fuel.<br /><br />Until that core issue addressed, we'll keep feeling good about the catastrophe we are causing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com