there are only a smidgen of resources. all of upstate new york, you can t drill anywhere. a lot of times the developments come in first it was the next ice age is coming. now it s quote climate change. anything that happens is our fault. there s an anti-capitalist agenda behind all of this. the industrial revolution is made possible because the market was allowed to work at the time. sulfur dioxide almost eliminated because of the cap and trade system. there was technology available to be able to strip out the socks from the pollutants.
the policy measures that democrats propose, and so that stiffens their resistance on climate. if we have a constructive conversation about the policy options that conservatives could support, we might have a different conversation about the science, itself. so, okay, you re agreeing with me that the reasoning is a sort of reverse engineering reasoning, which i understand. liberals do that, too, sometimes with certain things and that s a basic reaction we have as people with a set of priors, with a world view, right? so my question is, what are the acceptable what is the right way to go about reverse engineering, a productive conversation, if we can t talk about any of the possible interventions that might deal with the problem? well, you re wrong. we can talk about interventions that would deal with the problem. we just don t have to put climate front and center in it and don t have to talk about it as if the only way to engage with it is limiting emissions as the president has p
cap and trade system. we can focus on the core reality of the climate change problem which is an innovation issue that low carbon and zero carbon sources of energy are much more expensive than carbon intensive forms of energy. so we can work together on the innovation question, which is how do we actually make low and zero carbon energy sources price and performance competitive with carbon intensive forms of energy? so i really like that idea, right? there s a whole bunch of there was this universe of conservative monks, greg mankiw is one of them who talk about a carbon tax as a way of essentially keeping the government out of this but pricing in what they call the externalities, external cost of carbon. they like free markets, they like innovation. that s cool. the problem is that idea has zero traction with the
others, they know they object to the policy measures that democrats propose, and so that stiffens their resistance on climate. if we have a constructive conversation about the policy options that conservatives could support, we might have a different conversation about the science, itself. so, okay, you re agreeing with me that the reasoning is a sort of reverse engineering reasoning, which i understand. liberals do that, too, sometimes with certain things and that s a basic reaction we have as people with a set of priors, with a world view, right? so my question is, what are the acceptable what is the right way to go about reverse engineering, a productive conversation, if we can t talk about any of the possible interventions that might deal with the problem? well, you re wrong. we can talk about interventions that would deal with the problem. we just don t have to put climate front and center in it and don t have to talk about it as if the only way to engage with it is limiting
weeks after being elected, then president-elect obama repeated his campaign vow to reduce emissions by 80% by 2050 telling governors including schwarzenegger, quote, delay is no longer an option. denial is no longer an acceptable response. my presidency will mark a new chapter in america s leadership on climate change that will strengthen our security and create millions of new jobs in the process. that will start with a federal cap and trade system. well, there was an attempt for a grand bargain on climate and cap and trade. but, of course, deep divisions in congress on both sides of the aisle, emphasis on health care killed any chances of a big climate deal. three years after cap and trade died in congress, the president is running out of time on an issue he once considered central to his legacy. politifact which tracks campaign