Artdutra04:
When I first read this yesterday I thought that it was one of the most brilliant things I'd heard all year. In the last few hours though I've started to put a bit more thought into it, and there are a few issues with said plan (or at the very least questiion.
1.) How would large corporations be factored into this sort of plan?
Would the pollution of a coal plant be taxed evenly by all of the factory workers?
Or will the owners of the corporation be the sole recipients of the tax?
Did the article specify?
2.) Why would the Federal government go through with this plan as opposed to cap-and-trade? More bluntly put, what would be the advantage of a plan that is totally revenue neutral as opposed to a plan which can be taxed for government revenue? Maybe I just being a bit too cynical here, but I just can't see this sort of thing passing =\
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Originally Posted by ScottM
2. Climate data shows that the earth was warmer 1000 years ago than it is today. It was cooler 500 years ago. It also shows that the earth warmed from 1900 to 1945, cooled from 1945 to 1965, and has been warming since then. Applying Occam's razor, global warming is not caused by people, but by...drum roll please..the Sun.
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Here's a related question (somewhat =P): If the tempertures have been shown to increase drastically by natural means (last ice age to modern day) why is there any belief that this would not be the case nowadays?