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Tag Archives: global warming
For our Planet and Soul
Want to cut taxes, decrease the deficit, reduce regulations and improve the environment? A carbon tax would accomplish all that, but it has surprisingly few supporters. In fact, policy makers are running the other way. Economists have long argued … Continue reading
How Taxing Is It? III
Budgets need balancing; roads need repairing and CO2 needs to be reduced. All governments face these challenges. Is there anything that can address all three problems simultaneously? How about raising the gas tax? In the U.S., the federal tax on … Continue reading
Global Warming – Fact or Fiction?
President Obama, in his second Inaugural Address, significantly elevated the priority of climate change. “We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that failure to do so would betray our children and future generations,” he stated. The President … Continue reading
Old Problems Need New Thinking
Over the past 18 months, Wide Angle Thinking has addressed a number of critical problems. The subjects included: pollution and global warming, terrorism and war, debt and deficits and health and health care. We also discussed a number of specific … Continue reading
“It doesn’t make any sense” III
Ethanol subsidies, first introduced in 1978 and expanded by Congress many times since, is one of the most egregious examples of ill-conceived government policy one can find. These subsidies have inflated food prices, undercut the competitiveness of U.S. cattle, hog … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs On Current Affairs & Events, Economics, Environment, Money, Political
Tagged biofuel, climate change, CO2, Congress, corn, deforestation, ethanol, food prices, fossil fuels, gasoline prices, global warming, pollution, renewable energy, subsidies, The Nature Conservancy
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Let’s Talk
During the holiday season, friends and families come together to celebrate and discuss important events in their lives. These gatherings mirror society as a whole and often lead to a contentious airing of seemingly irreconcilable points of view on everything … Continue reading
Weather or Not (Part Two)
In our last post we discussed the beliefs of those who question the role human activity plays in global warming. They fear it will cost too much and return too little to attend to this looming menace. How valid is … Continue reading
Weather or Not
Headline – Hurricane Irene hits the East Coast of U.S. No reason to get excited, hurricanes happen and the hype is often worse than the event. If this were the only weather-related headline we could go back into hibernation as … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs On Current Affairs & Events, Environment
Tagged climate change, global warming, hurricanes, weather
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