MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'cap and trade'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:50:06 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4151747&cid=t_401605_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FgKhRO7iRgbM%2F By Patrick J. MichaelsNovember’s Scientific American features a profile of Georgia Tech atmospheric scientist Judith Curry,  who has committed the mortal sin of  reaching out to other scientists who hypothesize that global warming isn’t the disaster it’s been cracked up to be.  I have personal experience with this, as she invited me to give a research seminar in Tech’s prestigious School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences in 2008.  My lecture summarizing the reasons for doubting the apocalyptic synthesis of climate change was well-received by an overflow crowd. Written by Michael Lemonick, who hails from the shrill blog Climate Central, the article isn’t devoid of the usual swipes, calling her a “heretic,, which is hardly at all true.  She’s simply another hardworking sci... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4151747 Wed, 10 Nov 2010 17:48:35 +0100 4151747 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3885381&cid=t_401605_107_f&fid=36672&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencebase.com%2Fscience-blog%2Fcleaning-up-emissions.html Emissions trading is an economic workaround, a fudge if you will, to reducing one’s pollution levels by buying off the emissions credits of others who are polluting less. Emissions trading (also known as cap and trade) is a market-based approach used to control pollution by providing economic incentives for achieving reductions in the emissions of pollutants. The conventional approach as first suggested back in the 1960s is that a regulator sets a cap on the level of pollution allowed. Companies then buy permits representing their allowable emissions of any given pollutant. Critically, the total amount of pollution covered by the permits cannot exceed the cap, which supposedly then limits the total emissions across an industry. Companies who anticipate exceeding their permits can the... Sciencebase Science Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3885381 Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:30:26 +0100 3885381 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3812955&cid=t_401605_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FVM3_86BS7lA%2F By Daniel J. MitchellThe federal government is capable of enormous waste, which obviously is bad news, but the worst forms of government spending are those that actually leverage bad things. Paying exorbitant salaries to federal bureaucrats is bad, for instance, but it’s even worse if they take their jobs seriously and promulgate new regulations and otherwise harass people in the productive sector of the economy. In a previous video on the economics of government spending, I called this the “negative multiplier” effect. One of the worst examples of a negative multiplier effect is the $100 million that taxpayers spend each year to subsidize the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which is an international bureaucracy that publishes lots of i... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3812955 Mon, 02 Aug 2010 20:54:28 +0100 3812955 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3243780&cid=t_401605_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FsDY0XenFj-I%2F By Patrick J. MichaelsToday’s New York Times reports that President Obama has “ordered the rapid development of technology to capture carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of coal,” as well as mandating the production of more corn-based ethanol and financing farmers to produce “cellulosic” ethanol from waste fiber. You’ve got to like the president’s moxie.  Faced with his inability to pass health care reform and cap-and-trade, he now chooses to command the impossible and the inefficient. Most power plants are simply not designed for carbon capture.  There isn’t any infrastructure to transport large amounts of carbon dioxide, and no one has agreed on where to put all of it.  Corn-based ethanol produces more carbon dioxide in its life cycle than i... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3243780 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:01:00 +0100 3243780 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3012368&cid=t_401605_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Ful9uy7lpje4%2F There are two different stories coming from the same political party on global warming, leading to only one conclusion: President Obama is about to (or has) ordered the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to mandate some type of cap on U.S. carbon dioxide emissions. Harry Reid and other democratic leaders in the Senate have clearly indicated that cap-and-trade legislation will be put off at least, until what they call “spring”, which is long after the upcoming UN climate conference in Copenhagen next month. At the same time, President Obama has said that the U.S., along with China, will announce some type of emissions cap in Copenhagen. Obviously this cannot refer to legislation that has yet to be voted on in the Senate. President Obama keeps using the language “operati... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3012368 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:25:54 +0100 3012368 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2879390&cid=t_401605_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FUNQg-UugyUE%2F How cap-and-trade is like ritual self-flagellation. The Senate Finance Committee’s version of health care reform is definitely a step up from all of the other versions of the bill. But that’s still a pretty low bar. Change? The president cuts another deal for special interest lobbyists at the expense of American families. Why free trade is a boon to the environment. Podcast: Measuring Obama’s record on pursuing peace. (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2879390 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:37:34 +0100 2879390 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2855546&cid=t_401605_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fob9L-U8kv94%2F According to Thursday’s New York Times, “the Obama administration announced on Wednesday that it was moving forward on new rules to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from hundreds of power plants and large industrial facilities.” President Obama has said that he prefers a comprehensive legislative approach to regulating emissions and stemming global warming, not a piecemeal application of rules, and that he is deeply committed to passage of a climate bill this year. But he has authorized the Environmental Protection Agency to begin moving toward regulation, which could goad lawmakers into reaching an agreement. In the book that popularized the phrase “the Imperial Presidency,” historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. focused overwhelmingly on the vast growth of presid... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2855546 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:27:24 +0100 2855546 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2809662&cid=t_401605_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FYN8MwjrmY-s%2F Nat Hentoff has a few tough questions for doctors who aided CIA torture. Is public option a private insurer killer? Larry McNeely and Michael Cannon debate. “Cap-and-Trade Is Dead. Long Live Cap-and-Trade!” Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke says the recession is probably over. But was he the man who saved the economy? Podcast: Should the government have the power to punish you for speaking your mind? Many Americans think it should…so long as it’s people with whom they don’t agree. (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2809662 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:37:30 +0100 2809662 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2778658&cid=t_401605_136_f&fid=37852&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdonnatrussell.com%2F2009%2F09%2F09%2Fchaos-theory-cap-and-trade-at-the-bada-bing%2F New cartoon by Trussell & Trussell on AOL’s Politics Daily: Cap and Trade at the Bada Bing. Posted in Politcal Cartoons, Politics Tagged: cap & trade, cap and trade, carbon credits, emissions, g20 (Source: Donna Trussell) Donna Trussell blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2778658 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:48:46 +0100 2778658 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2712065&cid=t_401605_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FacawJ5E21T8%2F Since the June House vote on the Waxman-Markey “cap-and-trade” bill, lawmakers from both chambers have backed significantly away from the legislation. The first raucous “town hall” meetings occurred during the July 4 recess, before health care. Voters in swing districts were mad as heck then, and they’re even more angry now. Had the energy bill not all but disappeared from the Democrats’ fall agenda, imagine the decibel level if members were called to defend it and Obamacare. But none of this has dissuaded the editorial boards of the The New York Times and Washington Post. Both newspapers featured uncharacteristically shrill editorials today demanding climate change legislation at any cost. The Post, at least, notes the political realities facing cap-and-trade and ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2712065 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:41:08 +0100 2712065