Summary of Climate Change Policy Philosophy

[marcusmarcusrc]

The CBO director has posted a nice summary of the tenets of a good climate change policy:
http://cboblog.cbo.gov/?p=902

I appreciate the nod towards non-market solutions as well as price-based solutions (a common example of why more than just a price signal may be required is the "principal-agent" problem, where, for example, a landlord has no incentive to put in insulation because the tenant pays for the heat - or alternatively, in apartments like mine where utilities are included, I have no market incentive not to use excessive heat and or air conditioning because my landlord pays for it).

Comments

[rifmeister.livejournal.com]

Very good. Do you think we're likely to see a system that obeys these principles at all? I feel like what we're getting is an extremely poorly designed cap-and-trade system, where nearly all the permits are given away rather than auctioned.

[tirinian.livejournal.com]

In completely separate news:
I'm in DC this weekend, if you're around. :-)

[(Anonymous)]

I would like to ask a climate-change science question.
Can you give me a ballpark best guess (as these things go - as precise as a global average could ever be) for ocean salinity, acidity, and temperature in 10-15 years?
can you point me to educated best guesses for this sort of thing?

(friend of rifmeister, posting anon from work, will login this evening)