If 850 new coal power plants by 2012 cancel out Kyoto reductions by 500%, what's the point of a GW tax?

Question

By 2012, the plants in three key countries - China, India, and the United States - are expected to emit as much as an extra 2.7 billion tons of carbon dioxide, according to a Monitor analysis of power-plant construction data. In contrast, Kyoto countries by that year are supposed to have cut their CO2 emissions by some 483 million tons.

The findings suggest that critics of the treaty, including the Bush administration, may be correct when they claim the treaty is hopelessly flawed because it doesn't limit emissions from the developing world. But they also suggest that the world is on the cusp of creating a huge new infrastructure that will pump out enormous amounts of CO2 for the next six decades.

"If all those power plants are online by 2012, then obviously it completely cancels out any gains from Kyoto," says Gavin Schmidt, a climate modeler with the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, part of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Answer 1

You see the thing is  a GW tax isn' to help the environment but to give power to the liberals and socialists of the world. No matter what happens Liberals will always claim something is wrong and they should tax it.

Answer 2

GLOBAL WARMING IS'NT CAUSED BY ANYTHING MAN MADE AND IF PEOPLE ARE BEING CHARGED MONEY FOR PLANTS YOUR BEING SCAMMED. CONGRESS ORDERED THE E.P.A. TO PROVE THE CAUSE TO GLOBAL WARMING LAST YEAR, BUT THEY CAN'T PROVE IT. ALL NON-SOLIDS DECIPATE IN THE COLD THINNED AIR ABOVE US. PROVE IT TO YOUR SELF START A SAFE OUTSIDE FIRE AND WATCH THE SMOKE DECIPATE IN FRONT OF YOUR OWN EYES AS IT RISES, WATCH IT DISAPPEAR. I SUGGEST YOU HAVE THESE PEOPLE FIRST PROVE TO EACH OF YOU THAT WHAT THEY SAY IS TRUE, BECAUSE ITS NOT.

Answer 3

The war on carbon is like the war on drugs.  Politicians need the drug dealers for them to continue asking for more money and the drug dealers need the politicians to keep the price on drugs high.

The war on carbon gives them the power to slowly take away our individual freedoms, forcing us to buy mercury filled light bulbs while giving big coal a license to burn at will.

This is why we need to depend on the free market.

Answer 4

JS, the Plasma Enhance Meltor system could very well be the answer to all our problems. Google Plasma Enhance Me;tpr.

Answer 5

Taxes don't solve problems they create them.  The idea of carbon credit is ridiculous because the increase  will be passed on to the consumer.  Its just a way to redistribute wealth in the name of the environment.

Answer 6

I am more familiar w. the science of the issue than the economics. But it does seem relevant that one of the countries building is not a signer of the treaty and the largest economy in the world. The point behind the money and technology supplied to the developing nations from the developed nations is to provide means for them to find alternative energy sources. It does seem to me that there is a weakness in that it provides no true incentive to do so. But it is also telling to me that the opposition to the treaty has provided no solution other than handwaving promises that the free-market economy will find some technological solution.

Answer 7

Kyoto is bullshit. The tax credits are given to underdeveloped nations and then sold back to the big guys. Essentially, there was always a scam going on. Furthermore, if you anticipate the Bush Administration to do anything right, then you haven't been paying attention.

Answer 8

Carbon tax won't reduce carbon emmission.

The carbon tax will only shift the tax burden to those who use a lot of carbon fuels. Farmers, manufacturing, and the trucking industry.They will in turn pass the cost on to us. Our taxes might go down but the price increases will more than compensate. Its a form of positive feedback.

The higher prices will accelerate the green agenda of ignorance and freezing in the dark.

Answer 9

Simple, government uses any and all excuses to seize your money. The more money for them, the more power (and the less freedom for us).