If anyone asks for proof that conservatives can confront carbon emissions and climate change, I like to point West.
First, I urge people to examine the record of George Schultz. As I’ve said, he’s a long-time supporter of cap & trade.
Then, I point to the chairman of Townhall.com, Doug Wilson. He’s blogged for us here at [...]
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Over the last two weeks, I’ve been talking about the need to get conservative voices into the debate over energy and the environment (see part 1 here, and part 2 here). My views on these issues have generated quite a debate among our readers, and I’ve taken some heat over them, particularly when it [...]
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Well, last week’s post about Newt Gingrich and green conservatism generated quite a debate among our readers and quickly became, I believe, the most-read post in the history of Terra Rossa. So I thought I’d try to keep that discussion going by talking a little bit more about some of the issues raised by that [...]
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Yes, today is Tax Day – or, more accurately, the deadline Uncle Sam has given us to finish handing-over his take of our hard-earned paychecks.
Today in particular it baffles me how some folks support imposing a new carbon tax on greenhouse gas emissions when there’s a proven, market-based alternative available in cap & trade. [...]
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Recently I’ve seen a bunch of news stories like this quoting folks who feel cap & trade is too risky because the technology isn’t yet available to help America meet greenhouse gas emission caps.
Well, that’s not exactly the case. A study published in Science magazine by Princeton University researchers R. Socolow and S. [...]
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“Art imitates life” is a commonly used phrase when some piece of art, literature or cinema that has been represented as fiction finds its way into our non-fiction world. Sitting in my home tonight I was presented with a doozy.
I was reading the editorial page in my local paper and my state chamber of commerce [...]
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I wanted to bring to the attention of our readers an illuminating interview that the Wall Street Journal’s Alan Murray and Kimberley Strassel conducted with GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt this week.
In the interview, available here, Mr. Immelt covers a wide variety of energy and environmental topics from a capitalist perspective. It’s fascinating to read his [...]
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One of the most common concerns raised by opponents of cap & trade is it will cost a lot of Americans their jobs. Given folks’ anxiety about the state of our economy today those concerns, whether true or not, have an impact.
I’m not an expert on the economy, though like millions of other entrepreneurial [...]
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I keep hearing legislators say that we cannot address climate change without CHINA. I wholeheartedly agree that China has to be part of the solution — but since when does the United States wait for China to lead? There are a few lessons from the world of sports that may help explain how we [...]
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Even as the Lieberman-Warner bill continues to languish in committee, it has been a big week for proponents of cap-and-trade in the U.S. First, the New York Mercantile Exchange announced that it would start selling futures in a carbon market, joining other U.S. companies like the Chicago Climate Exchange. And in Canada, the [...]
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Now that’s a powerful message coming from three senior business executives who know a lot about creating jobs.
In a new nationwide TV ad premiering today, three surprising voices join the climate chorus:
Robert Lane, CEO of John Deere,
Alexander M. “Sandy” Cutler, CEO of Eaton Corp., and
Frank Knapp, president of the 5,000-member South Carolina Small Business Chamber [...]
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My favorite green blog, the Wall Street Journal’s Environmental Capital today notes an interesting development. Financial giant Merrill Lynch has invested $9 million to protect nearly 3,000 square miles of Indonesian forest.
Merrill Lynch is hoping to use this investment to generate carbon credits it can sell on the open market; a shrewd business decision by [...]
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