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Here we go again: More on Cap-and-Trade v. Carbon Tax

Posted on October 13, 2008

From the inbox (from Dr. Alan Dove, high school friend, freelance science writer and Columbia U. PhD in microbiology--smart dude): Tim: Hope all is well with you. I've been enjoying the blog, and was interested to see that you favor a cap-and-trade system. This subject actually came up in my own work recently, so I wanted to run something past you. While covering a meeting in Mexico City a few weeks ago, I heard Robert Engle give a neat talk about risk analysis and climate change. Among other ideas, he suggested a carbon tax, but with a twist. In order to make it politically palatable, he said...

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