From a Washington Post editorial, Take Mr. Obama’s Oil Fee Proposal Seriously, Feb. 7.
Is there any evidence for a pause in the long-term global warming rate? The answer is no. That was true before last year, but it’s much more obvious now.”
Gavin A. Schmidt, head of NASA’s climate-science unit (the Goddard Institute for Space Studies), in 2015 Was Hottest Year in Historical Record, Scientists Say, NY Times, Jan. 21.
Putting a solid price on carbon pollution, as Carbon Washington’s I-732 does, would massively accelerate the shift to clean energy.”
Jigar Shah, co-founder and president of Generate Capital and founding CEO of SunEdison, in Duncan Clauson, Endorsement From Jigar Shah, as reported by Carbon Washington, Jan. 5.
The evidence suggests that voters are more open to carbon taxation than the present Republican position that climate change is no big deal and requires little federal response.”
Niskanen Institute president Jerry Taylor, in “Ed Gillespie Is Dead-Wrong About Carbon Taxes,” Nov. 2.
It is just the right moment to introduce carbon taxes.”
Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund, quoted in Global Post, Oct. 7.
This is humanity as a geologic force, We’re not a subtle influence on the climate system – we are really hitting it with a hammer.”
Carnegie Institution for Science researcher Ken Caldeira, commenting on a new study he co-authored, reported in Study Predicts Antarctica Ice Melt if All Fossil Fuels Are Burned, by Justin Gillis, NY Times, Sept. 12.
[A] potential joint U.S.-China carbon tax is more important than whatever happens at the United Nations climate talks in Paris.”
Climate scientist James Hansen, quoted in “The Point of No Return: Climate Change Nightmares Are Already Here,” Rolling Stone, August 5.
It is a mystery why the Republican Party drives environmental policy away from using Adam Smith’s invisible hand.”
Gilbert E. Metcalf, Tufts University economist specializing in energy and the environment. U.S. Leaves the Markets Out in the Fight Against Carbon Emissions, NY Times, July 1.
[B]y far the biggest way countries reduce the [market] price of energy is by not taxing it enough to account for the damage that burning fossil fuels causes to human health and to the climate.”
The High Cost of Dirty Fuels, NY Times editorial, May 21, 2015.
A carbon tax has gone from a policy that only an economist could love to #carbontax.”
Adele Morris, policy director for Climate and Energy Economics at the Brookings Institution, in Carbon tax could replace Obama’s climate rules, Democrat says, EnergyWire, April 23.