Calling the Carbon Bluff: Why Not Tie Carbon Taxes to Actual Levels of Warming? Both Skeptics and Alarmists Should Expect Their Wishes to Be Answered

摘要

After much effort, G8 leaders agreed last year to “stabilize greenhouse gasnconcentrations at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference withnthe climate system.” This is the same wording as in Article Two of the UN FrameworknConvention on Climate Change, signed in 1992. In other words, after months ofnnegotiations, world leaders agreed on a text they had already ratified 15 years earlier.nMore recently, leaders at the APEC Summit in Australia agreed to set “aspirational”ntargets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, some day, on a voluntary basis.