RE: World headed for irreversible climate change in five years, IEA warns
January 2, 2012 at 1:41 am
Let me clear up some misconceptions you might have of my position on this subject. I do believe that the current Australian federal government's emissions trading scheme is designed so it wont do anything. They only introduced it as the price of getting the Greens support which they needed to stay in government. A simple tax on carbon would be much effective.
A tax on carbon makes the price of certain fuels higher. That increased price forces consumers to reduce their use of petrol, electricity, etc which produces green house gases. By using less power, petrol or substituting them with fuels which produce less or no greenhouse gases.
I would agree with you on this point, we need to thinking some extremely radical measures so that net greenhouse emissions go down to zero and ideally into negative levels. Because I do expect to live another 60 or 70 years, so I will be around even things go down the drain.
A tax on carbon makes the price of certain fuels higher. That increased price forces consumers to reduce their use of petrol, electricity, etc which produces green house gases. By using less power, petrol or substituting them with fuels which produce less or no greenhouse gases.
(January 1, 2012 at 5:53 pm)padraic Wrote: As far as I'm aware we needed a world wide reduction of 20% years ago. We'e probably ALREADY FUCKED.
I would agree with you on this point, we need to thinking some extremely radical measures so that net greenhouse emissions go down to zero and ideally into negative levels. Because I do expect to live another 60 or 70 years, so I will be around even things go down the drain.
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