Wednesday, November 21, 2012

More betting on global warming

Here's an interesting video here from Mark Boslough (of "pi = 3" fame, among other things).



It is interesting that people from as diverse standpoints as Ross McKitrick can also call for a tax that depends on the temperature rise - not quite the same thing as the bonds that Mark Boslough was describing, but not a million miles away either. Of course the devil is in the details, such as the level of payment/tax required.

2 comments:

Carrick said...

Truth is stranger than fiction.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill

Paul S said...

Seems to me a tax linked to past temperature changes could become the dictionary definition of closing the stable door after the horse has bolted.

On the other hand, it would create a huge financial incentive for improvement of decadal prediction capabilities in order to predict taxation.