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</div><div>jerry Taylor served as director of natural resource studies, a senior fellow, and a vice president for development at the Cato Institute until 2014. He was published in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy, the Columbia Journal of International Affairs, Regulation magazine, and other publications.</div><div>
Taylor served on several congressional advisory bodies and testified frequently on Capitol Hill regarding various energy and environmental policy matters. He was the author or coauthor of numerous Cato policy studies addressing energy taxes, the oil market, electricity regulation, energy efficiency, renewable energy, sustainable development, and trade and the environment. He has also contributed to several anthologies, including The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics (2007), Energy & American Society — 13 Myths (2007), The Republican Revolution 10 Years Later (2005), Earth Report 2000 (2000), China as a Global Economic Power (1997), and Market Liberalism (1993).<div>
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</div><div>Jerome Cogburn "Jerry" Taylor (born August 2, 1962) is an American <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activist" class="mw-redirect" title="Environmental activist" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">environmental activist</a>, policy analyst, and game designer. Taylor cofounded the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niskanen_Center" title="Niskanen Center" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Niskanen Center</a>, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,D.C." title="Washington, D.C." style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Washington, D.C.</a> based <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_tank" title="Think tank" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">think tank</a> that advocates for market environmentalism and the adoption of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_tax" title="Carbon tax" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">carbon tax</a> system to combat <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming" class="mw-redirect" title="Global warming" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">global warming</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Taylor#cite_note-:0-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;">early life and education[</h2>Taylor attended the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Iowa" title="University of Iowa" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">University of Iowa</a> as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_science" title="Political science" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">political science</a> major.[] As a student, Taylor became an editor of the Hawkeye Review, a conservative student newspaper that served as an alternative to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Iowan" class="mw-redirect" title="Daily Iowan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Daily Iowan</a>. Taylor's activism stirred several controversies including the alleged <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism" title="Plagiarism" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">plagiarism</a> of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Sobran" title="Joseph Sobran" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Joseph Sobran</a> column from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Review" title="National Review" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">National Review</a> in the Daily Iowan, and his involvement in a harassment campaign against <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT" title="LGBT" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">LGBT</a> patrons at a local <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_bar" title="Gay bar" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">gay bar</a>. When asked about the controversy, Taylor responded "I was a version of the campus conservatives who invite <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopolous" class="mw-redirect" title="Milo Yiannopolous" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Milo</a> [Yiannopoulos] to campus" and indicated he had since changed his views.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Taylor#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Career[</h2>During the 1990s and 2000s Taylor made regular media appearances as a global warming skeptic, including on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn_and_Teller" class="mw-redirect" title="Penn and Teller" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Penn and Teller</a>'s show Bullshit as well as a special edition of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stossel" title="John Stossel" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">John Stossel</a> show devoted to attacking climate science. After being challenged by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Romm" title="Joe Romm" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Joe Romm</a> to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fact-checking" title="Fact-checking" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">fact-check sources</a>, Taylor changed his prior beliefs because "the scientific evidence became stronger and stronger over time."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Taylor#cite_note-vox-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Taylor#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Taylor#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a>On June 29, 2020, Taylor faced backlash after tweeting about two St. Louis homeowners who pointed firearms at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Lives_Matter" title="Black Lives Matter" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Black Lives Matter</a> protestors, calling them "racist lunatics" and further stating: "I’d like to think I’d rush them and beat their brains in. And I wouldn’t apologize for it for one goddam second...Yeah, excuse me if I root for #antifa to punch these idiots out. Guilty as charged. I know who’s side I’m on.”<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Taylor#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a>On September 6 2021, Taylor resigned from the Niskanen Institute. He had been placed on administrative leave by the Institute a few days earlier after the board became aware of him being charged with domestic violence against his wife and pleading guilty.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Taylor#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Personal life[</h2>Taylor's brother, James Taylor, is president at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartland_Institute" title="Heartland Institute" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Heartland Institute</a> which opposes addressing climate change.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Taylor#cite_note-:0-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">References[</h2><div class="reflist" style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; list-style-type: decimal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references" style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-parent 0 list-item 0; list-style-type: inherit;"><li id="cite_note-:0-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;">^ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Taylor#cite_ref-:0_1-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:a</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Taylor#cite_ref-:0_1-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">b</a> <cite class="citation web cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.eenews.net/stories/1062936653" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" e54="e54" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">"THINK TANKS: Brothers duke it out from opposite sides of climate fight"</a>. www.eenews.net. 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Retrieved 2020-02-17.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Vox&rft.atitle=The+arguments+that+convinced+a+libertarian+to+support+aggressive+action+on+climate&rft.date=2015-05-12&rft.aulast=Roberts&rft.aufirst=David&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vox.com%2F2015%2F5%2F12%2F8588273%2Fthe-arguments-that-convinced-this-libertarian-to-support-a-carbon-tax&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJerry+Taylor" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Taylor#cite_ref-4" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite id="CITEREFLerner2017" class="citation web cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Lerner, Sharon (28 April 2017). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://theintercept.com/2017/04/28/how-a-professional-climate-change-denier-discovered-the-lies-and-decided-to-fight-for-science/" style="text-decoration-line: none; 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FF deniers pretty sure gov't action on AGW, rallied to ~, doubted they cd win but "ran the table"; dems knew W-M beat ended action for a decade?!<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">1992<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Chapter iii. The Environmental Presidency<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">GOV. BILL CLINTON, Arkansas, 1983-1992:<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The man standing beside me today has what it takes to lead this nation from the day we take office. Sen. Al Gore of Tennessee.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">MARC CHUPKA, White House economist, 1993-94:<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">When Bill Clinton announced that his running mate was going to be Al Gore, that was very exciting.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">There was an anticipation of a much greater effort to tackle climate change.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">BILL CLINTON:<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We will finally give the United States a real environmental presidency.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">AL GORE:<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Then President-elect Clinton understood clearly that that's why I was on the ticket. That's why I agreed to run as vice president.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">MALE NEWSREADER:<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He has won this presidential race, along with Sen. Al Gore, now the vice president-elect.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">JANE McMULLEN:<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Now you’re in the White House—<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">AL GORE:<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Yeah.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">JANE McMULLEN:<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">—to tackle it. Did you feel a sense of responsibility?<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">AL GORE:<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Oh, absolutely. That was the principal task that I set for myself entering the White House. And I went to work right away to try to get a carbon tax in our first budget plan.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">MARC CHUPKA:<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sen. Gore asked me to produce some quantitative results of how much various energy taxes would reduce emissions.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Feb. 17, 1993<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON:<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Our plan does include a broad-based tax on energy, and it is environmentally responsible. It will help us in the future as well as in the present with the deficit.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">MARC CHUPKA:<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I was excited that a fairly bold step had been proposed.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">MALE NEWSREADER:It’s called a "BTU tax."<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">FEMALE NEWSREADER:<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The tax is likely to be levied at the producer or distributor level, though consumers would feel it as energy companies passed it along in their prices.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">MARC CHUPKA:<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It’s a tax policy. You don’t expect everyone to love it. But the opposition to this particular proposal was very strong, very strident, very aggressive.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">MALE NEWSREADER:Koch Industries has been called the biggest company you never heard of. The sprawling giant includes pipelines, petrochemicals, asphalt plants, trading floors. Based in Wichita, Kansas, it sells everything from gasoline to beef.JEFF NESBIT, Comms. Dir., Citizens for a Sound Economy, 1993:<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I would say that virtually no one in the early 1990s had ever heard of Koch Industries.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">MALE NEWSREADER:<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Koch's core business is distribution. It owns 37,000 miles of international pipeline.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">JEFF NESBIT:<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">They can take the heaviest oil, the dirtiest oil, the hardest to turn into a useful product and refine it. And they became the best in the world at doing that. I think it's still probably the second-largest privately held company in the world.The two brothers who ran Koch Industries were Charles and David Koch. They had their sights set on how they were going to deal with issues that were existential to their industry. It's the heart of what they do, so they're going to fight and hang on to that till the bitter end.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">JERRY TAYLOR, Cato Institute, 1991-2014:<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Cato Institute was a public policy think tank. It was founded by Charles Koch. And Charles was heavily invested in energy policy discussions back in that time, particularly the emergence of climate change.The Cato Institute position was that climate change is real, but the climate change that we're seeing today is far, far more modest than what the computer models say we should have seen by now. We need to know a lot more before we should be spending trillions of dollars to address it.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">JEFF NESBIT:<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">So the Kochs had funding directed at the Cato Institute as a libertarian think tank; they also had funding that went to Citizens for a Sound Economy, which was built for a slightly different purpose, which was to be a quote, grassroots mobilizer.JERRY TAYLOR:Coming out of the gate, we then get served up with a proposed BTU tax. It was obvious to us at the Cato Institute that once that tax is in place, it's going to be very hard to get rid of.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">JEFF NESBIT:We walked over from Citizens for a Sound Economy over to the American Petroleum Institute, and we met with the entire leadership of API. And the meeting was all about, let's just knock out the BTU tax in its infancy.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">JERRY TAYLOR:We would be meeting in various locales in Washington with over 100 people in the room. It was a real war room situation.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">JERRY JASINOWSKI, President of the National Association of Manufacturers :[Archive] This coalition is one of the fastest growing and strongest that I've seen. We will stop the BTU tax and I believe substitute spending cuts in its place. Thank you very much for coming.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">OklahomaRON HOWELL, Former consultant, Koch Industries:<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We were known, and I think we made ourselves known that way, as the oil capital of the world. Almost everywhere you'd look had behind it oil industry dollars.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I thought that the tax was a bad idea for America, but predominantly a bad idea for Oklahoma. Oklahoma was not in a good spot at that time at all. Oil wells were being shut. That meant a lot of lost jobs, a lot of lost companies. And this was putting the heel of the boot down hard.I got a call from Koch Industries telling me the industry is very concerned about this, but we're worried that this word isn't getting out. Our particular goal was to focus on Sen. Boren.JEFF NESBIT:David Boren was a moderate Democrat who chaired the relevant committee that would deal with the Clinton budget.RON HOWELL:We were hearing that he wanted to be left to do his own revising of it behind closed doors.JEFF NESBIT:They basically said if we can get David Boren to flip, we win. So they said, we're going to do whatever it takes.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">RON HOWELL:We set about what I would call a grasstops and a grassroots campaign. The grassroots were encouraged to call Sen. Boren and let him know that you do not want a tax, after seeing an ad that showed "take shower, pay a tax; start your car, pay a tax."<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">JEFF NESBIT:<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Everybody was given their marching orders out of this playbook. People would stand up behind politicians with signs about no BTU tax. There were rallies.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ENERGY INDUSTRY SPOKESMAN:<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">—cost to the average household in Oklahoma is going to be roughly about $500 a year.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">RON HOWELL:My main role was what I would call the grasstops. You may be a civic leader, you may be a CEO. Often it would be Mr. Koch would call them, or myself, and talk them through "Did you know it does this, this, this and this?" Encourage strongly Sen. Boren kill it.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">JEFF NESBIT:What they told the public and what the policymakers were led to believe was that there was an army of folks who were ready to march in the streets. Maybe there were a handful of folks who thought, "Oh, gosh, I should call my senator and register my complaint," but they had no such grassroots army. It was funded and fueled by the corporate interests.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">MALE NEWSREADER:<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">CSE says its work isn’t done yet. It’s joined forces with other lobbying groups, stoking the flames of the prairie fire, hoping they’ll spread and burn the BTU tax for good.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">RON HOWELL:I remember a very late night or early morning phone call, and it was actually Sen. Boren's communications guy. "We want those ads to stop. And we want the CEOs to quit calling us, and in return, Sen. Boren’s going to announce his intentions to vote against it."<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">SEN. DAVID BOREN, D-Oklahoma, 1979-94 :<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Our proposal is fairer than that put forward by the administration—that is the BTU tax, which is the tax which is a part of the administration's plan that does hit lower- and middle-income Americans.JEFF NESBIT:He folded right away. It’s like wow, this can really work. We can pick our targets strategically and win, even when we’re not in political power.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">NARRATOR:<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">At the time, David Boren disputed he was influenced by the oil industry. He said he was responding to concerns from the American public, and he opposed the tax because it would hurt consumers and businesspeople.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">MALE NEWSREADER:<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">President Clinton has pulled the plug on his proposed BTU energy tax.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">FEMALE NEWSREADER:<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Critics said it would cost jobs and devastate the economy, and there weren't enough votes in the Senate to pass it. Besides, who the heck knew what it was?<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">MALE NEWSREADER:<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This is after all a nation addicted to its cars and to the idea of driving down the open road.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">AL GORE:<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It was extremely disappointing to not get the votes. It was just the raw power of all the money that they threw into this. But we just decided to regroup and try to skin the cat a different way.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">MARC CHUPKA:They never proposed another energy tax. It was just considered radioactive.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">JEFF NESBIT:I think some of the leadership of the Koch network were really quite excited that it worked so well. So that's how that playbook first began. It was developed right then. What I didn’t know at the time was that it would become the beginning of something much bigger. And that playbook is still in use today.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I don't feel embarrassed or regretful. In hindsight, I shouldn't have done that. There's no question I shouldn't have done that. But they were my client. I was a contractor. I was paid, I'm going to do my job. And my job was to do that.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">NARRATOR:<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Charles Koch did not respond to questions about the campaign against the BTU tax. In 1994, a top Koch executive said, "Our belief is that the tax, over time, may have destroyed our business."...<div></div><div>frontline 4 22</div><div>
</div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">CHRISTINE TODD WHITMAN:<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Before I went to my first G8 environmental ministers meeting in Italy, I went to the White House and I basically said, "Look, I am going to say we'll put a cap on carbon," because that had been in the campaign literature. And I ran that all the way up the flagpole at the White House to make sure it was OK and—"Fine. Go ahead."<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Trieste, Italy<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">CHRISTINE TODD WHITMAN:<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">[Archive] The president has indicated he acknowledges that global warming is of primary importance. It’s at the top of his agenda.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">NARRATOR:<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But while Whitman was in Italy, a very different message was being promoted through the top ranks of the Bush administration. Haley Barbour, an influential Republican and energy lobbyist, had written to Vice President Dick Cheney, questioning whether the carbon cap idea was “eco-extremism” and risked exacerbating the country’s energy problems. Other prominent voices, some from think tanks funded by the fossil fuel industry, joined in, too, opposing climate action.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">BILL O’REILLY, FOX News: [no date]This global warming controversy is unprovable, but that doesn't stop people on both sides from swearing they know what the heck is going on. Joining us now from Washington is Jerry Taylor, the Cato Institute’s director of natural resource studies.JERRY TAYLOR, Cato Institute, 1991-2014:My objective while at Cato was to demonstrate to smart, engaged people that the case against climate action was far stronger than they realized. And I honestly and in good faith felt that the arguments against climate action were far, far stronger. And so that was my job. And I did it well.For most people, if things are very uncertain, they're not going to commit a lot of resources to address them until that certain uncertainty clears up.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">BILL O’REILLY:<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Do you believe that the people of the United States should do anything because of the weather?<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">DEB CALLAHAN, League of Conservation Voters:<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">You know, in fact, EPA Administrator Christie Whitman—...Things that will save money and save the environment.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">JERRY TAYLOR:Debate is performance art. I was pretty good at that performance art. I was the good communicating gunslinger.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">DEB CALLAHAN:<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Things that will save money and save the environment.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">BILL O’REILLY:<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mr. Taylor, last word.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">JERRY TAYLOR:[Archive] We've already had about a third of the amount of warming that we're going to get this century. It's already happened, and crop yields are up, life expectancy is up.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">BILL O’REILLY:<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">All right. So you’re fine and Ms. Callahan is battening down the hatches. Well—<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">JERRY TAYLOR:[Archive] Things are fine so far.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">CHRISTINE TODD WHITMAN:<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">When I returned from Italy, I heard some rumors that all of a sudden we weren't going to go forward with a cap on carbon. So I asked for a meeting with the president, went over and met with him. And it was a done deal.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.725em; hyphens: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In fact, as I walked out of the office after that meeting, the vice president was just coming by and said, "Do you have the letter for me?" I didn't know what letter he was talking about. He asked the secretary, and they handed him an envelope. And he was on his way up to the Hill. And it was the letter that said, "We're not doing a cap on carbon—too bad, rest of the world."...</div><div>=</div>=david roberts<a href="https://www.vox.com/2015/5/12/8588273/the-arguments-that-convinced-this-libertarian-to-support-a-carbon-tax">https://www.vox.com/2015/5/12/8588273/the-arguments-that-convinced-this-libertarian-to-support-a-carbon-tax</a>no lnx many grfsThe arguments that convinced a libertarian to support aggressive action on climateBy David Roberts@drvolts  May 12, 2015,To the casual observer, the American right can appear an undifferentiated wall of denial and obstructionism on climate change, but behind the scenes there are signs of movement. A growing number of conservative leaders and intellectuals have come to terms with climate science and begun casting about for solutions. Led mainly by libertarians and libertarian-leaning economists, they've begun to coalesce behind a carbon tax, which they consider the most market-friendly of the available alternatives.Jerry Taylor, a longtime veteran of the libertarian think tank Cato Institute who recently founded his own libertarian organization, the Niskanen Center, is a vocal proponent of this perspective. About five or six years ago, he says, he was convinced by a series of discussions, mainly with other right-leaning thinkers, that he was wrong on climate policy. His position "fundamentally switched."In March, he released a new policy brief, "The Conservative Case for a Carbon Tax," which argues for a steadily rising "revenue-neutral" fee on fossil fuel producers. Aside from a small portion set aside to cushion low-income households, all the revenue would be devoted to reducing other taxes.Taylor has in mind a deal that would impose a carbon tax in exchange for the removal of other climate regulations, notably EPA carbon rules and state renewable energy mandates. He's been defending the proposal on Niskanen's blog, mainly against attacks from skeptical conservatives.On a hot DC day last week, I caught up with Taylor at Niskanen's office — housed, improbably, in a buzzing shared workspace filled with attractive millennials and their startups. The muggy weather had him in a natty seersucker suit, full of energy and eager to dig into wonky details.Though it may not be obvious, our conversation has been edited for length. Part one covers the arguments that convinced Taylor aggressive climate policy is necessary, why the Tea Party still disagrees, and how he thinks the right base can be brought around to his way of thinking. Part two, tomorrow, will get into climate policy and how it squares with libertarian principles.David Roberts: Tell me a little about your personal evolution on the issue of climate change.Jerry Taylor: Well, I’ve been wrestling with climate issues ever since I was employed at Cato, back to 1991 — I initially started out editing [noted climate skeptic] Pat Michaels’s books. For most of my time at Cato, I took what is today the conservative orthodox line on climate, which is that it’s unclear how big a problem it is, there’s a lot of uncertainty, and there’s probably more of a chance that it’s going to be a relative non-problem than it will be a problem. Given that, the premiums associated with addressing it in the manner environmentalists wish to address it were so high, it was not worth the policy."IT’S NOT IRRELEVANT THAT SMART SKEPTICS REMAIN A TINY MINORITY IN THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY, TO THIS DAY"You can add to that what I call the Bjorn Lomborg position, which is that if you put down a list of all the things plaguing mankind and putting people in body bags, you’re going to find climate change pretty far down the list — there are a lot more worthy things to address if you’re going to spend the kind of resources required to address climate change.So that was my line. But I began to change, maybe five or six years ago, for several reasons.One, the scientific evidence became stronger and stronger over time. A lot of conservatives think of climate change as similar to the population issue. You have to remember, in the '60s and '70s people were frantic about population growth. And it just peeled away as an issue, simply because it was wrong — or the projections were. And so I would say the same thing: [climate change] is just one in the endless parade of environmental apocalypse stories.But in this particular case, the concern has been with us for over 30 years, and the case isn’t getting weaker. It seems to get stronger. And while one can do some gymnastics to continue to defend the "there’s nothing to see here, folks" argument, it became harder and harder. It’s not irrelevant that the smart skeptics still remain a tiny, tiny minority [in the scientific community], even to this day.[climate science opinion(Dragons flight/Wikipedia)]There’s one of three reasons for that. You can argue, one, that most scientists happen to be left-of-center activists. I don’t agree with that. Second, you can argue that there are public choice dynamics that explain why environmental scientists, atmospheric physicists, and others embrace alarmism. There’s probably some truth to that, but nowhere near as much as a lot of people on the right believe. Or third, [skeptics] just don’t have a strong case. And I increasingly began to worry that it was the latter.But what really changed things for me ... it began with an essay by Jon Adler, a friend of mine who now teaches at Case Western Reserve University. He wrote an essay on free-market environmentalism and why, if you take it seriously, it’s pretty hard to be as cavalier as libertarians are when it comes to climate change.Libertarians tend to compare the cost side of climate change [mitigation] to the benefits. They say, when [person or company] A harms [person or company] B, if the gains to A are greater than the harms to B, then fare thee well. No! If you believe in property rights and individual liberty, it simply does not matter if aggression from A gains more than is lost by the victim.I just never thought of it that way. And I thought he was exactly right. So that was the first thing that changed for me."IF THIS SORT OF RISK WERE TO ARISE IN THE PRIVATE MARKETS, PEOPLE WOULD PAY REAL MONEY TO HEDGE AGAINST IT"Then Bob Litterman comes along. He is pretty well-known in the environmental community; he's on the World Wildlife Fund board of directors; he’s on the Resources for the Future board of directors. He’s also — prior to and separate from these activities — a partner at Goldman Sachs. He started their quant operation and is one of the top risk analysts in the world.So [Litterman] came in to talk to me and my then-colleague, Peter Van Dorn, and laid out what I thought a very powerful argument. In brief it went like this: the issues associated with climate change are not that different from the risk issues we deal with in the financial markets every day. We know there’s a risk — we don’t know how big the risk is, we’re not entirely sure about all of the parameters, but we know it’s there. And we know it’s a low-probability, high-impact risk. So what do we do about that in our financial markets? Well, if it’s a nondiversifiable risk, we know that people pay plenty of money to avoid it.[Litterman's] point was that if this sort of risk were to arise in any other context in the private markets, people would pay real money to hedge against it. He did it every day for his clients. Even if Pat Michaels and Dick Lindzen and the rest [of the climate-skeptic scientists] are absolutely correct about the modest impacts of climate change as the most likely outcome, it’s not the most likely outcome that counts here. Nobody would manage risk based on the most likely outcome in a world of great uncertainty. If that were the case, we’d have all our money in equities. No one would spend money on anything else. But we don’t act that way.I thought that was a very powerful argument. At this time, it was nagging at me what [economist] Marty Weitzman had come up with. This was another big intellectual development, his long-tail [risk] argument, how these long-tail risks are accounted for in cost-benefit calculations. And as each rebuttal was issued to Weitzman, they were just shredded.[ipcc climate sensitivityLook at all these long tails. (IPCC AR4)]
And then Litterman comes along and marries that analysis to the financial markets. That was very powerful stuff. So my position fundamentally switched at that point.And about that same time was Mass v. EPA [the case in which the Supreme Court authorized EPA to regulate carbon emissions] — the baseline was no longer non-intervention. It was no longer a conversation about whether we should do something, but a conversation about how we should do something. And with the endangerment finding at EPA, and the Clean Power Plan going forward, the regulatory drumbeat is banging. It's pretty hard to argue that a carbon tax is a less attractive answer than, say, EPA regulation.DR: Lots of people thought the threat of EPA regulations was going to be the killer argument to help get cap-and-trade through in 2009. But it didn’t. Nobody bought it.JT: There are probably a couple reasons. My conversations with friends on the right suggested that they didn’t think EPA had the ability to execute a plan like this. And if it did, it wouldn’t want to take ownership of the costs associated with it. The Obama administration needed a political green light from Congress to take policy in this direction. Even though in theory [Obama] could [on his own], in practice he really couldn’t. And that even if they were wrong, they’d fight it — that’s what lawsuits are for, that’s what presidential elections are for.So that threat never moved anybody’s needle even a centile on the right. It probably should’ve, but it didn’t. [bs massive raga etc attack on cpp incl this bastard]DR: The intellectual evolution you’ve described makes a lot of sense to me. Yet you remain among the very few on the right to have gone through that evolution. From the outside, at least, the right still looks like a giant lump of "no" on climate. Is there more going on beneath the surface?JT: I think so. The libertarian world is inscrutable enough to a non-libertarian. But even within the libertarian world, it’s divided into factions. When outsiders look at the right-of-center world, what they tend to look at is people in Washington. The people who make a living arguing about, say, environmental policy, sure, they’re a giant voice of "no." And the organizations they work for tend to be that way, as well."I DON’T THINK YOU NEED TO WIN A WAR ON TALK RADIO TO HAVE IMPACT ON RIGHT-OF-CENTER OPINION"But if you put together a roster of the smartest right-of-center or libertarian thought leaders, whether they’re economists or lawyers or philosophers or what have you — I mean libertarians or thoughtful right-of-center libertarian-ish people like Greg Mankiw and Glenn Hubbard — you’ll find a very different picture. You see far more support for doing something in a market-oriented direction to address climate change than you see denial. In fact, you see very little denial.So it’s a very different picture outside of Washington. If you look at the Pew research, you find that the libertarian world outside of Washington is heterodox. They believe in action. They are already on the other side of where the DC establishment is. And then a lot of the people I know in libertarian and right-of-center organizations who are not engaged in the climate debate but are in some other policy area, there’s a not-insubstantial amount of lingering and, in my opinion, growing skepticism about the direction of the libertarian world on this issue. So it’s a little more complicated than it might look from the outside.DR: But then you look at the Republican base ... one recent poll of early primary states found that [in Iowa and South Carolina] belief in climate change was the least acceptable position among Republican voters. It seems to have become an identity issue. Does anyone know how to unwind that?JT: John McCain knew how to unwind that. Climate change is low salience, not just for voters in general, but even for activists. Yeah, if you ask people in the Tea Party movement, "What do you think about climate change?" they’ll get very militant about the topic. (I notice they’re like that about a lot of topics.) But back in 2008, they sure hated Barack Obama a lot more than they hated a cap-and-trade project. It didn’t get in the way of their votes for John McCain. [DRILL BABY DRILL PALIN?!]There are a couple of things the polling tells us. The first is, outside of the self-identified Tea Party voter, even Republicans are more inclined to vote for a candidate who is in favor of some proactive measures on climate than one who is against it. That even goes for self-identified conservative Republicans. It’s only the Tea Party where you see the huge opposition.[A YEAR BEFORE TRUMP WINS][republicans on climate change(Yale Project on Climate Change Communication) (Yale Project on Climate Change Communication)]The second thing to note is there’s a real difference between Republican primary voters in red states versus blue states. There was a very interesting article in the New York Times a few month ago that looked at a path to the Republican nomination. All the commentary says you have to kowtow to the Tea Party, the activists and the anti-tax groups. [The article] said, nonsense. How many Republican nominees have done that? Lots of people trying to get the nomination do that, but all the [successful] nominees tend to be establishment Republicans.How could that be? It turns out the road to the GOP nominations still runs primarily through blue states. And Republican voters in New Hampshire do not look like Republican voters in South Carolina, even in the primaries. So for that reason, I think you can make more of the surveys you’re talking about than maybe you ought to.That’s not to say [the Tea Party] is unimportant. The main thing that keeps a lot of elected Republicans from entertaining the ideas I’m for is the fear that were they to do so, they would soon be working at republicEn with Bob Inglis [who lost his South Carolina House seat to a Tea Party challenger in 2010, in part due to his support for a carbon tax], because they won’t have a job. They don’t want to be Bob Inglis. And until they see some real reason they won’t, they’re going to hold their fire.DR: It does seem that there’s some effort from the Republican establishment to mute the science denial, but they don’t really know how. They've unleashed a beast they can't control.JT: That’s exactly right. I mean, the thing I try to play up when I’m engaging with the right on this topic is that if you look at surveys, you find a majority of the people in the opposition camp will tell you they don’t buy [climate change]. They take the James Inhofe line: "It’s a hoax" or "It’s a fraud" or "It’s all natural, there’s no way man can affect the climate, this is hubris."Whereas the scientists they point to to justify that position don’t agree with that. For the most part, the credible climate scientists — Dick Lindzen, [Pat] Michaels, Judith Curry, Bob Balling — all dismiss that argument. They believe anthropogenic emissions are indeed changing climate at the margins.So you’re right, a beast was unleashed. A lot of it comes from talk radio, a lot of it comes from Fox, and that’s where a lot of the conservative base gets their information.The discussion about how public policy changes — there’s no real orthodox view on that. There are lots of different theories. None of them are proven.But when it comes to public opinion, there are academic orthodoxies. They survive the test. And those orthodoxies suggest that public opinion follows elite opinion, pure and simple. If elite opinion changes, public opinion changes — it can change fast and it can change dramatically.Beliefs about climate change — whether it’s happening, whether we should do anything — have been pretty stable. What moves around is right-wing opinion. And it tends to follow the leader. So when Newt Gingrich and John McCain were talking about the need to do something about climate change, what do you know? Republican support for doing something about climate change, including conservative support, shot up. When they were out of the game and the messages were more uniform on the other side, Republican support dropped.DR: This suggests that the smart thing for people like you to do is to go after elite opinion.JT: Yes. If the objective is to change public opinion, then changing elite opinion is a necessary prerequisite. In fact, I would say necessary and sufficient. I don’t think you need to win a war on talk radio to have your impact on right-of-center opinion.[Tune in tomorrow, when Taylor and I discuss libertarian principles, climate policy, and Obama's Clean Power Plan.]=PT 2<a href="https://www.vox.com/2015/5/13/8594727/conservative-carbon-tax">https://www.vox.com/2015/5/13/8594727/conservative-carbon-tax</a>
NO LNX GRFSThe current GOP strategy on climate change is denial and delay. But a growing number of libertarian and right-leaning thinkers are finding that strategy untenable, choosing instead to acknowledge the problem and advocate for what they see as the most market-friendly solution: a carbon tax.A leading voice in this ... well, "movement" is probably too strong, call it a stirring, is Jerry Taylor, formerly of the libertarian Cato Institute, now leading his new libertarian Niskanen Center.Taylor has proposed a grand bargain of sorts: in exchange for the elimination of EPA carbon regulations and state renewable energy mandates, Congress would adopt a substantial and rising economy-wide carbon tax, made "revenue-neutral" by reducing other taxes.I chatted with Taylor in the Niskanen offices last week. The first part of our conversation covered the state of right-leaning opinion on climate change; this part covers the politics and policy issues around a carbon tax.David Roberts: Let’s talk a little bit about policy. What happens if the risks of climate change clash with libertarian policy principles?Jerry Taylor: The idea that libertarian principle is organically opposed to action on climate — I just don’t buy that, even for one second. I think it’s the opposite: the more principled libertarian you are, the more you should support doing something about climate change.Libertarians believe in protecting persons and property from invasion by other parties. The only role of government in the libertarian world is to protect the persons and property of individuals. It doesn’t matter whether the threat comes from a burglar, a rampaging gang, or a smokestack.Many arguments libertarians offer in this debate are not only divorced from libertarian principle, they’re opposed to it. For example, it's fine to consider cost-benefit analysis, but it sure as heck has nothing to do with libertarian principle. I think you can be a libertarian and embrace cost-benefit [analysis] for lots of different reasons. But the more principled your defense of property rights and individual liberty, the higher the bar should be for you to sign off on pollution trespass, or trespass that imposes risk.DR: If you open libertarianism to diffuse, incremental risks imposed by one party on another, where do you stop? Isn’t it true that most industrial activity has some effect on the health and property of others?JT: In libertarian ideology and theory, Murray Rothbard plays a pretty central role. And he has made two arguments that are at odds with one another.He wrote a book many years ago, For a New Liberty, in which he took the absolutist view: he argued that if you issue pollutants that cross my property line and do harm to me or my property, or even if you’re just trespassing against my preference and I can prove there’s a risk, I should be able to shut you down. Simple, straight, clean libertarian argument — the problem is that if you take it seriously, you’ll shut down industrial civilization."THE MORE PRINCIPLED LIBERTARIAN YOU ARE, THE MORE YOU SHOULD SUPPORT DOING SOMETHING ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE"So he then took another bite at the apple in an article for Cato Journal in 1982, called "Law, Property Rights, and Air Pollution," in which he argued, Okay, that should be the standard rule, but you have to prove harm in the here and now — not someday, not in the future, not maybe, but now. You also have to be able to identify who caused the harm. It’s not good enough to say it must’ve been one of eight different coal-fired power plants; you have to identify the exact party to the transgression.If you can prove concrete, non-negligible harm in the here and now, and you can identify the party, then you can shut them down. If you can’t do these things, oh well, it’s just the price of industrial civilization. That [effectively] means no pollution control, because virtually nothing is going to meet that standard.So he has two very unsatisfactory positions. Matt Zwolinski recently surveyed the world of libertarian thought and theory about how to deal with pollution, and he found that virtually all of it is unsatisfactory. The absolutist libertarian position leads to the end of industrial activity; the [second] Rothbard position leads to no pollution control whatsoever. [Zwolinski] says libertarians need to think harder about this, and until they do, they can’t really engage in this conversation as libertarians.DR: You’re proposing a carbon tax — at what level, to start with?JT: I haven’t picked anything yet. The Niskanen Center is in the business of politics, and politics is the art of the possible. What I might think is the ideal carbon tax may be completely untenable politically.We have to stipulate that we do not know what the "right" price for carbon emissions is, and we will wait until the end of time if we are going to insist on knowing with any certainty. Our best guesses have big error bars on them.But I am not at war with IPCC narratives. If keeping global temperatures within 2° Celsius of where they were at a certain baseline is the desired objective, then you want a carbon tax that will do that.[two degrees chartTwo degrees: it won't be easy. Sanford et al. (2014)]You could equally well justify an argument that says, Our best guess about most likely outcomes, married to the nondiversifiable risks associated with catastrophe scenarios, suggests that the price of the risk is X. Price it that way.It turns out that if you go in either direction — either a tax that gives you reasonable certainty about not crossing certain concentrations, or one that reflects our best judgments about what our risk might be — you produce a pretty high carbon tax, higher than the one being discussed by Adele Morris at Brookings or by most politicians.DR: What do you mean by high? Ballpark it.JT: I’ve seen some pretty good studies on what happens when you marry the Weitzman fat-tail [risk] scenarios to conventional social-cost-of-carbon calculations. They take your optimal carbon tax, in today’s dollars, anywhere from, say, $70 to $80 a ton to a couple hundred dollars a ton.DR: What if a carbon tax that turns out to be politically possible is well south of $70? Why should those concerned about climate change trade in these other [regulatory] tools for an insufficient tax?JT: It’s almost certainly well south of that. If you’re concerned about climate change, and the carbon tax produces less emission reductions than [EPA carbon regulations and state clean-energy mandates], then no, it would not be a deal worth embracing for you."I DON’T KNOW WHEN A WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY FOR A CARBON TAX WILL OPEN, OR HOW IT WILL OPEN, BUT I GUARANTEE IT WILL OPEN"You could still say, The reason I might accept that deal is that the cost of emission reductions under the regulatory status quo is extremely high. And the high price of marginal emission reductions is so important to voters; they will be willing to buy less emission reductions in the future if every increment is really expensive. If a carbon tax can produce emission reductions at a fraction of the cost per unit, then that reduces the marginal cost of being more ambitious down the road. Perhaps that trade is still worthwhile for you.But put that aside for a second. Let’s assume you simply want to make sure the carbon tax gives you at least as much and preferably more emission reductions than the status quo. Well, it turns out a pretty small carbon tax can do that.According to Charles Komanoff at the Carbon Tax Center, an economy-wide carbon tax of $1.15 a ton, increasing by $1.15 a year, will give you the same emission reductions as the Clean Power Plan [the EPA's plan to regulate power plants]. That seems a bit low to me, but even if he’s off by a couple orders of magnitude, it’s still pretty small.When you look at other studies on a $10 carbon tax, a $15 carbon tax, a $20 carbon tax – well within the realm of the politically possible — they all produce more emission reductions than the [current] baseline.I’m looking forward to seeing more research on this in the future, but it looks like a carbon tax that gives you the same emission reductions as EPA regulations is in the single digits. A double-digit carbon tax almost certainly outperforms the status quo.DR: What about the argument that historically we tend to overestimate the cost and underestimate the benefits of EPA regulations? Do you just not buy that?JT: It’s true, but not necessarily relevant here. The emission reductions that follow from the Clean Power Plan are predicated upon an iron march through goals and timetables, hitting targets over the course of the next 15 years. The EPA’s track record of ensuring that regulatory accomplishments meet goals and timetables — it’s just horrific. It took 20-odd years for the New Source Review standards to come into law after Congress said, "Thou shalt release standards for new sources of emissions." [cato fought them?][tea party epa protestThese gentlemen agree that EPA has trouble with targets and timetables. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)]DR: You can’t entirely blame EPA for that.JT: You cannot, but the point is we have an Administrative Procedures Act [which ensures public participation in,[90 DAYS? NONBINDING?] and judicial review of, administrative rule-making] that is just built to delay. [HIJCKED BY EBH ASTROTURF?] That’s not to say we shouldn’t have an EPA, but when you delegate to EPA the job of issuing regulations and you develop ambitious and aggressive timetables, you will always be disappointed.I can guarantee you the Clean Power Plan will not give the emission reductions advertised, simply because [EPA] will not meet its goals and timetables. Lawsuits are going to screw it up, administrations are going to slow walk, there is going to be no end to the problems associated with it.DR: What if clean energy becomes cheaper faster than people think? Will that inspire states to move faster?JT: That’s quite possible. You could make a reasonable argument — I’m not entirely sure I would make it — but you could make a pretty good argument that prior to 1970 or '80 or so, states were less inclined to adopt aggressive anti-pollution policies than the federal government. But today, it’s entirely the opposite. You do not often read of states that want to opt out of the Clean Air Act or the Clean Water Act. What you generally read are states that want to go further. [CATO ON CA CAFE?]DR: Well, red-state governors support bills that would cripple or abolish the EPA."IT’S HARD FOR ME TO FATHOM WHY A GOP GOVERNOR WOULD TAKE MITCH MCCONNELL’S ADVICE"JT: These are symbolic. It's messaging legislation. The most topical example of this right now is, Will states file an implementation plan for the Clean Power Plan? If you are a governor and you say, "No, my state will not file the state implementation plan. I will let those dang federal regulators take responsibility," what have you really done? You've increased the cost of the regulations.Now why did they make that decision? Because they want to gut the EPA? No, they made that decision because they would rather have the EPA take political ownership of these regulations than them.That’s a political calculation; it has a hell of a lot more to do with internal GOP politics than any genuine sense of what a state might do if it were freed and able to set up its own regulations.DR: Still, it does seem from the case of Medicaid expansion that red-state governors are willing to accept a lot of pain and forgo a lot of gain based on political considerations.JT: It’s hard for me to fathom why a Republican governor would take Mitch McConnell’s advice. [McConnell urged states to refuse to submit implementation plans under the Clean Power Plan.] It’s hard for me to fathom why anybody in the business community or anybody in the right-of-center donor community would support it.You worked really hard to put together a red-state legislature with a red governor. Why? Because you want policy to be less economically burdensome. You have all these ideas about limited government, and now you have an opportunity to exercise all of that power, to [design] a low-price regulatory regime relative to what you otherwise might’ve had, and what do you do? You say, "Ah, I want nothing to do with this game. We’ll punt it to EPA regulators."Even if Mitch McConnell wins his war against the regulations, which he may very well — just from a narrow, technical perspective, the regulations are on pretty shaky legal ground — the EPA will go back to the drawing board and write new regulations, which will still be driven by the endangerment finding and will still accomplish reductions of greenhouse gases. And states will likely not be allowed to use the lower-cost options they were afforded in [the Clean Power Plan]. So the EPA’s going to come back with more expensive regulations. Yay, Mitch McConnell!Unless he can figure out some way to remove the endangerment finding, then he’s just stalling for time. And I don’t know any Republican strategy to do that. [MAJOR---SCOTUS?]Even winning the White House won’t get you there; if you do it, you’ll be subject to lawsuits in which environmentalists will ram the academic literature right down the administration’s throat in front of a federal judge.DR: The proposal you put on the table, the conservative case for the carbon tax — is it just a shout of hope in the wilderness? Or do you see a pathway from here to there?JT: I see several pathways. Things don’t stay frozen. One thing we know about politics is that windows of opportunity for major policy change do not open on demand, and they do not open frequently, but they do open. And the other thing we know about them is that they open on timetables that are mysteries to mortal men. So I don’t know when a window of opportunity for a carbon tax will open, or how it will open, but I can guarantee it will open.[newt and nancyRemember when these two agreed on climate change? (YouTube)]Go back in time to the health-care debate. In 1978, Jimmy Carter has major Democratic majorities in the House and the Senate. He wants a health-care bill. They mess it up. The window of opportunity for health-care reform closes for 12 years or so until it opens again for Bill Clinton. Once again they mess it up. MASSIVE ATTACK, BY CATO?] So the window closes again in 1994. It stays closed until Barack Obama, more than a decade later.OMFGBut when it opens for Obama, everything’s changed. Why? Because now there’s a consensus about how to go about this. Thanks to the Heritage Foundation, a model was put on the table and adopted in Massachusetts. They showed it could work. Even though there were still a lot of people who support single-payer — they saw that, politically, this is vetted and can succeed in practice. If you didn’t have policy reform in place, well-vetted, already having worked the political terrain, it wouldn’t have happened.Now, back to carbon. I could see several windows opening.One: another big sit-down with regard to deficit and public debt. That has happened periodically in this country, and it’ll happen again, mostly because the trajectory of the public debt, after dropping for the past couple years, is going to go right through the roof. The demographics on entitlement programs are pretty overwhelming. And it’s going to require tax increases. There’s no way around it. Where are those tax increases going to come from? [Taxing carbon] is certainly better than taxing income, profits, or labor.That’s one possibility: they need revenue, and carbon taxes can provide revenue.Another way it could happen is in the form of tax reform. Conservatives really, really want corporate income tax cuts and reductions in marginal rates on income taxes. Democrats desperately want a carbon tax. You can say, This is how we’re going to do it — we’re going to pay for the corporate income tax cut through a carbon tax. That way, it all evens out and nobody has to screw up their nose.A third avenue is if the Clean Power Plan, or whatever replaces it after it’s tossed, starts getting traction — state implementation plans are being filed, regulations are being enforced. Those are going to incur some serious costs and a big hit to a lot of [COAL?] companies. It’s not the end of the economy, by any means, but it’s not an insubstantial expense.Well, it would not be unimaginable to have the oil, gas, coal, and other industrial sectors going to a Republican president — or even a Democratic president — and saying, "We can’t do this. There are better routes." And in fact, support for a carbon tax is the rule, not the exception, in the oil and gas sector.Now what’s the right going to say? You’re going to look pretty silly talking about how a carbon tax is the death of the fossil fuel industry when the fossil fuel industry is supporting it. So that’s a third scenario.That leads you to scenario four: Hillary Clinton gets elected in 2016 with a Democratic Senate, which is almost certainly going to happen, and the House stays the same, just moves a little [Democrat]. And [Clinton] is convinced that we need a far more ambitious program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.It's very hard to get more through the regulatory process without busting the system, so she goes for a carbon tax. The Democrats would all line up behind it, I’m sure. All you need to do is pick up five or six Republicans in the Senate and 20 or 30 Republicans in the House.[Hillary Clinton is running for president."I won't stop until I get a carbon tax!" (Screenshot)]So it's not impossible to imagine that the arguments I make, that other people in my community make, that oil, gas, and coal make, would not at least denude opposition enough that there might be a jailbreak of five or six Republicans. Especially if Hillary just won. The main threat to the GOP right now is the fact that they are on a path that leaves them a permanent minority party. They will become like the Republican Party of California if they don’t change on immigration, if they don’t change on environment, if they don't change their mode of governance in Washington. That stuff appeals to a very aggressive group of powerful voters, grant you, but they’re no longer a majority. I think most of the leadership in the GOP knows this.So those are four options off the top of my head. There might be more. I’m an optimist.NO LNX GRFS<a href="https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2018/02/the-evolution-of-a-one-time-climate-skeptic/">https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2018/02/the-evolution-of-a-one-time-climate-skeptic/</a>NO LNXCLimate change policy analyst* Jerry Taylor spent more than 25 years earning his well-deserved reputation as the skunk at the picnic of American climate scientists.Taylor – the focus of this month’s “This is Not Cool” video – cut his teeth as an energy and environment savant with the very conservative American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), where he worked from 1988 to 1991. Then, from 1991 to 2014, he was with the free-market Cato Institute in Washington, D.C., where he eventually became a vice president. Through many of those years, Taylor was a frequent spokesperson for those scientists who regularly challenged whether climate change is real, human-caused, or, in either event, worth worrying about or doing anything to address.A frequent commentator and analyst on those media outlets on the right politically – think Fox News, the Wall Street Journal editorial page, Regulation magazine – Taylor earned the respect of those generally regarded as “skeptics.” He now has come to call some of those Fox News hosts who had given him so much precious air time “howler monkeys,” just one example of his facile way with words that makes him so quotable and so sought-after by many in the news media.But along with the preening admiration bestowed on Taylor from many of those most stridently rejecting climate science or any effort to manage climate risks, he also won the very begrudging respect of those mainstream climate scientists and policy advocates who, while admiring his communications savvy and stage presence, trashed what they dismissed as his pseudo-science proclamations.Those scientists readily identified with organizations such as the IPCC, the National Academy of Science, and NASA and NOAA had a shared viewpoint: Not only did they think Taylor was simply “drinking the Kool Aid” prepared and fed to him by fossil fuel-funded interests, but they also recognized that he was effective – that is very good. Very good, they would say, at doing very bad things in terms of undercutting public understanding of what many see as an existential threat to modern society and the global economy. And very good at having contributed to the polarized impasse that continues to shroud the climate change issue, particularly on Capitol Hill.Jerry Taylor:  Version #1 vs. Version #2But that was Jerry Taylor, Version #1. That is the Jerry Taylor who from 2000 through 2009 was spending lots of his free time designing wargames for computer gaming enthusiasts.Then came Jerry Taylor, Version #2. That’s the Jerry Taylor who – after doing what he describes as his own “due diligence” – has come to fully accept and endorse the peer-reviewed scientific evidence on human-caused climate change that Earth’s atmosphere has warmed over the past half-century-plus primarily as a result of human emissions of greenhouse gases, specifically including carbon dioxide.Jerry Taylor Version #2 goes further. Having studied under-graduate political science at the University of Iowa, but without graduating, Version #2 now also accepts the need to address and manage climate change impacts … and risks and accepts also the economic rationale, indeed necessity, for doing so now, rather than putting it off until … forever … as he long had argued for.Having left behind him the Cato Institute and other climate “contrarian” partisans, interests, and individual climate science “deniers,” Taylor may yet come to be seen, in this second iteration, as being among the most quotable and effective communicators and proponents for climate action. And as one who to at least some extent has the ear of many on Capitol Hill disinclined to be seen as accepting the science or policy gravitas of ongoing atmospheric warming.Jerry Taylor Version #1 and Jerry Taylor Version #2. It’s kind of a BC/AD situation, and an evolution that was triggered, interestingly enough, by a face-to-face challenge from well-known and feisty climate action activist and author Joe Romm, of the Center for American Progress and Climate Progress website.Strange bedfellows that, many would surely say.It’s Jerry Taylor Version #2 who is the focus of this month’s  Yale Climate Connections’ video by independent videographer Peter Sinclair, of Midland, Mi.Taylor says he doesn’t care to be described as a “libertarian” though that may be how many see him. “I’m a very heterodox libertarian at best,” he says – which means he’s unconventional or unorthodox among those seen as straight-out libertarian. “If I must be labeled ideologically, perhaps ‘moderate’ would be most correct,” Taylor now says. It’s an adjective few in the climate community might have thought appropriate not so long ago.TAGGED: Bud Ward Peter Sinclair This is not coolBud Ward is Editor of Yale Climate Connections. 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</div><div><div class="long-formwrapper container--medium-down" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: var(--content-width); letter-spacing: 0.142222px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="lead lead--dropcap clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4;">SO the great energy fight of ’01 is on. Conservatives are doggedly rallying around the newly released Bush energy plan while liberals are attacking it with relish. Unfortunately, the fight is nine parts political theater to one part policy — and that “one part” of policy is so pregnant with economic mischief and counterproductive rhetoric that it’s beyond me why conservatives are so determined to play the role the administration is casting for them.</div></div><div class="long-formwrapper container--medium-down" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: var(--content-width); letter-spacing: 0.142222px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="body-text fs-lg" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: var(--article-font-weight);">First of all, why are free‐market types cheering the introduction of a “comprehensive national energy strategy”? After all, conservatives didn’t cheer a “comprehensive national Internet strategy” when one was proposed by Al Gore, a “comprehensive national industrial strategy” when one was proposed by Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich, or a “comprehensive national health‐care strategy” when one was proposed by Hillary Clinton. Conservatives as a general matter believe that the government ought to leave markets alone and that “comprehensive national economic strategies” are things that old Soviet commissars and young French socialists are in the business of promoting, not free‐market American presidents.“Energy’s different,” they say. Excessive regulation and environmental opposition have shut down energy production and delivered us into a mess that only a “comprehensive national energy strategy” can sort out. Really?Without the guidance of a “comprehensive national energy strategy,” investors are currently pouring billions into the energy sector. For instance, we’re currently in the midst of a power‐plant construction boom, with some 90,000 megawatts of new electricity capacity scheduled to come on line by 2002 and a staggering 150,000–200,000 megawatts by 2004. This will not only burst the electricity‐price bubble but will probably produce an electricity glut in the near future. Similarly, so many billions are flooding into the natural‐gas market today that futures contracts are being made at half the price of today’s wholesale spot price. And high gasoline profit margins are inducing foreign refineries to enter the American market for the first time in decades and bringing new investment in domestic refining capacity as well. Barring some unforeseen supply disruption in the refining sector, gasoline prices will actually begin to decline slowly but steadily as the summer wears on.What about all those “Not‐In‐My‐Back‐Yard” activists supposedly blocking the new wires and pipelines necessary to get energy from producers to consumers? You can certainly make an argument that the real problems in the energy sector are delivery problems, not production problems, but it’s unclear whether NIMBY is at the root of it.Incumbent utilities have little incentive to build new transmission lines that would make it easier for ratepayers to buy cheaper power from competitors in neighboring service territories. Nor do utilities have an incentive to invest in new power lines when the profits allowed them by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission are too low to make those investments particularly worthwhile. And with transmission rules still up in the air and unsettled at both the federal and state level, regulatory uncertainty is likewise dampening investment.Similarly, there is little evidence that investors have been inhibited from increasing pipeline capacity when profit opportunities present themselves. The Energy Information Administration notes that pipeline capacity “has grown with end‐use demand, and as new supplies have developed, new pipelines have been built to bring this gas to markets.” The Gas Research Institute likewise concludes that “growth in pipeline capacity is not a constraint on growth in gas supply. If supply is available, history has demonstrated that the pipelines will be built as needed. It is simply an investment and engineering issue.”If government’s not in the way, why then did energy prices shoot up in the first place? Well, energy markets, like most commodity markets, are subject to boom and bust cycles. Energy prices after adjusting for inflation have been plummeting more or less for 15 years. Investors took money out of production and exploration budgets because profits were hard to come by. The bust suddenly ended last year, catching almost everyone by surprise, and the boom is now on. Investors are scrambling to expand supply, but capital investments take time. Let me make this simple: High prices = high profits = increased investment = price declines. It might take some time to get from here to there, but government’s record in speeding up the process is abysmal.Regardless of President Bush’s gloomy rhetoric, this isn’t the beginning of America’s descent into the long dark economic night unless the feds can somehow come to the rescue. There’s plenty of energy around for suppliers to get their hands on and plenty of reason for people to conserve in the face of high prices. Rather, we’re experiencing the economic equivalent of a low‐pressure front that will soon pass (indeed, already is passing) as long as government doesn’t do anything foolish in the meantime.So how does the administration’s plan rank on that front? While there are literally about a hundred proposals that call for the government to “consider” this, “examine” that, and “investigate the possibility” of the other thing, the concrete proposals within the plan’s 170 pages are few and far between. Let’s look at the highlights:Drilling on Federal Lands. Even if you’re happy digging up the tundra, there’s little reason to think that drilling in ANWR will do much to bring down energy prices. Industry’s best estimate is that ANWR could produce about 1 million barrels of oil per day at its peak. That’s a 1.25 percent increase in global production that, all things being equal, would reduce world oil prices by about 10 percent, from $25 per barrel to $22.50. While that’s nice, it wouldn’t do much of anything to deliver America from the power of the OPEC cartel, particularly since OPEC’s likely reaction would be to cut its own production to maintain world crude prices at today’s levels.The administration would also like to increase industry access to various fields on federal lands in the lower‐48 and in the Gulf of Mexico, primarily to get at natural gas deposits. That’s fine, but again, it’s not as if, without those new fields, existing gas wells would run dry.None of this is to say that the federal government shouldn’t be a more reasonable economic steward of public lands. But it is to say that the administration is overselling the benefits that those policies will deliver to energy consumers.Federal Eminent Domain Power For Electricity Transmission. As noted above, there are lots of reasons why utilities aren’t investing much in new transmission. NIMBY is only one of those reasons — and perhaps not even the most important. Having the feds step in and force private property owners to cut deals they don’t want to make with power companies seems antithetical to an administration that likes to talk about its commitment to private property rights.The administration’s energy plan calls for the feds to adopt incentive‐based rate making for transmission investments in lieu of the present rate‐of‐return regulatory regime. This ought to help some, but a better idea is to remove rate caps on transmission charges entirely. Still, let’s wait to pull out the federal guns on private landowners at least until we know they’re absolutely needed.Tax Incentives for New Energy Production. If you’ve got an energy lobbyist in Washington, has Dick Cheney got a sack of money for you! Everyone’s a winner: oil; gas; hydrogen; hybrid and fuel‐cell vehicles; superconductors; landfill methane; coal (make that “clean” coal, the adjective that is de rigueur whenever the word “coal” is used by this administration); ethanol; nuclear fission; nuclear fusion; solar; wind; bus, truck and automobile engine manufacturing; fuel cells; biomass; industrial cogeneration plants; and producers of energy efficient this and that. With this blizzard of new federal research and development initiatives, accelerated depreciation allowances, production tax credits, consumption tax credits, and subsidies for energy businesses competing in foreign markets, don’t expect the tax code to get any more comprehensible or your tax burden to get any lighter anytime soon.It’s unclear why we need to bribe investors with tax money to take advantage of profit opportunities, and government’s track record at turning dubious ideas that don’t attract private investment into wonderful new economic toys is pretty bad (remember synfuels?). But hey, corporate welfare is what makes the political world go around.Energy Welfare. If you’re poor, might soon be poor, or live in the Northeast, the Bush administration feels you pain. More tax money to the notoriously wasteful Low Income Energy Assistance Program; more tax money for the Weatherization Assistance Program; and more money for the Northeast Heating Oil Reserve. For this we elect Republicans?Regulatory Fine‐Tuning. This is a story of the good, the bad and the ugly. The good: repeal of the antiquated Public Utilities Holding Company Act (PUHCA), which dictates both the organizational structure and permissible service territories of electric power companies; and expedited renewal of permits for construction of the Trans‐Alaskan natural gas pipeline. The bad: rumblings about increasing Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency (CAFÉ) standards for automobiles, standards which are simply back‐door taxes on big cars, SUVs and mini‐vans; further federal prohibitions on energy “inefficient” (read “cheap”) appliances; and a directive to federal agencies to pursue international agreements to address global climate change (haven’t we had enough of that for a while?). The ugly: tighter regulation of power plant emissions of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and mercury. Is more environmental regulation of power plants really necessary or really helpful at the moment?So what exactly have we got here? The political equivalent of a sugar pill. The Bush energy plan won’t do much good, but it won’t do too much harm either. And that’s pretty good for government work.On balance, we’d be better off if the administration had not opened this can of political worms. Had the administration simply focused on tinkering with regulations where necessary and revising federal land‐use rules where politically possible, we would not need to put up with so much chaff for so little wheat. Instead, we’re now in the midst of an empty but still white‐hot argument about whether we should more heavily subsidize this rather than that. We’re also subjected to a bizarre debate about whether “the nation” (as if we have some command‐and‐control, Soviet‐style economy) should invest more heavily in supply or whether “the nation” should invest more heavily in conservation.And to make its case, the administration is finding it useful to dredge up ludicrous arguments, such as the horrific implications of importing oil or the apocalyptic consequences of having investors go about their business without some detailed, comprehensive federal energy planning document to guide them.Free‐market types have no business in this intellectual ghetto. Nor do they have any business promoting most of this interventionist, corporate‐welfare agenda.</div></div></div><div>=</div><div>
</div><div><div class="nrn-react-div" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><article id="r1-0" data-handled-by-react="true" data-testid="result" data-nrn="result" class="yQDlj3B5DI5YO8c8Ulio CpkrTDP54mqzpuCSn1Fa SKlplDuh9FjtDprgoMxk" style="margin: 0px; padding: calc(var(--px-in-rem)7.2) 10px; border: 1px solid transparent; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border-radius: var(--rounded-md); box-shadow: var(--theme-shadow-ui); cursor: pointer;"><div class="OQ_6vPwNhCeusNiEDcGp" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: flex; flex-grow: 0;"><div class="mwuQiMOjmFJ5vmN6Vcqw B433VpEfaxl6n8VNRUDy NvMwcsUp56q4W2Z_b8E7 hAeZQDlu0XXeGwL7U722 SgSTKoqQXa0tEszD2zWF LQVY1Jpkk8nyJ6HBWKAk" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: var(--line-height-result-url-main); vertical-align: baseline; display: inline-block; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: inherit; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; letter-spacing: var(--letter-spacing-result-url-main);"><a href="https://www.desmog.com/2006/11/27/a-cato-tonic-response/" rel="noopener" target="self" data-testid="result-extras-url-link" class="Rn_JXVtoPVAFyGkcaXyK" data-handled-by-react="true" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="Wo6ZAEmESLNUuWBkbMxx" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">https://www.desmog.com<span class="oaxCunrdbQs3WQDCq3Ls" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"> › 2006 › 11 › 27 › a-cato-tonic-response</a></div></div><div class="ikg2IXiCD14iVX7AdZo1" style="margin-top: calc(var(--px-in-rem)2.1024); margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: calc(var(--px-in-rem)4.09696); margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><h2 class="LnpumSThxEWMIsDdAT17 BrPN5UiFwJN5HlfRhga9 CXMyPcQ6nDv47DKFeywM" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: var(--line-height-result-title-main); vertical-align: baseline; letter-spacing: var(--letter-spacing-result-title-main); position: relative;"><a href="https://www.desmog.com/2006/11/27/a-cato-tonic-response/" rel="noopener" target="self" class="eVNpHGjtxRBq_gLOfGDr" data-testid="result-title-a" data-handled-by-react="true" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="EKtkFWMYpwzMKOYr0GYm LQVY1Jpkk8nyJ6HBWKAk" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: top; display: inline-block; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: inherit; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">A Cato-tonic Response - DeSmog</a></h2></div><div class="E2eLOJr8HctVnDOTM8fs" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="OgdwYG6KE2qthn9XQWFC" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: var(--line-height-result-snippet-main); vertical-align: baseline;">Two skeptics at the Cato Institute now argue that it's wasteful to spend money addressing the climate crisis because succeeding generations will be so much wealthier that the cost to them will be negligible. What they don't tell us is that if we don't deal with this issue a.s.a.p., succeeding generations will be bankrupt by mid-century.</div></div></article></div><div class="nrn-react-div" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><article id="r1-1" data-handled-by-react="true" data-testid="result" data-nrn="result" class="yQDlj3B5DI5YO8c8Ulio CpkrTDP54mqzpuCSn1Fa SKlplDuh9FjtDprgoMxk" style="margin: 0px; padding: calc(var(--px-in-rem)7.2) 10px; border: 1px solid transparent; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border-radius: var(--rounded-md); box-shadow: var(--theme-shadow-ui); cursor: pointer;"><div class="OQ_6vPwNhCeusNiEDcGp" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; 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padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: top; display: inline-block; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: inherit; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">Media Watch: Will Cato Dupe Journalists with Counterfeit Gov't ... - DeSmog</a></h2></div><div class="E2eLOJr8HctVnDOTM8fs" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="OgdwYG6KE2qthn9XQWFC" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: var(--line-height-result-snippet-main); vertical-align: baseline;">Cato Institute, the right wing think tank co-founded by the Koch brothers, plans to release a document this week that has all the appearances of being a government report on the impacts of climate change in the United States - but of course it is not. 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At Cato, Taylor often expressed skepticism that human industrial activity is a major cause of global warming. A few years ago, though, he became convinced that his earlier position was mistaken.</div></div></article></div><div class="nrn-react-div" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><article id="r1-8" data-handled-by-react="true" data-testid="result" data-nrn="result" class="yQDlj3B5DI5YO8c8Ulio CpkrTDP54mqzpuCSn1Fa SKlplDuh9FjtDprgoMxk" style="margin: 0px; padding: calc(var(--px-in-rem)7.2) 10px; border: 1px solid transparent; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border-radius: var(--rounded-md); box-shadow: var(--theme-shadow-ui); cursor: pointer;"><div class="OQ_6vPwNhCeusNiEDcGp" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; 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text-decoration: inherit; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">Investment Bankers Versus Engineers as Decision Makers - Response to ...</a></h2></div><div class="E2eLOJr8HctVnDOTM8fs" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="OgdwYG6KE2qthn9XQWFC" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: var(--line-height-result-snippet-main); vertical-align: baseline;">On April 9, 2010, Jerry Taylor of the Cato Institute paid me the compliment of responding to a post that I labeled as a "smoking gun". I gave the post that label since it provided...</div></div></article></div><div class="nrn-react-div" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><article id="r1-9" data-handled-by-react="true" data-testid="result" data-nrn="result" class="yQDlj3B5DI5YO8c8Ulio CpkrTDP54mqzpuCSn1Fa SKlplDuh9FjtDprgoMxk" style="margin: 0px; padding: calc(var(--px-in-rem)7.2) 10px; border: 1px solid transparent; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border-radius: var(--rounded-md); box-shadow: var(--theme-shadow-ui); cursor: pointer;"><div class="OQ_6vPwNhCeusNiEDcGp" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; 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font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.3; vertical-align: middle; border-radius: var(--default-border-radius); display: inline-block; position: relative; user-select: none; top: -1px; background-color: rgb(208, 208, 208);">PDF HARRY DE GORTER & JERRY TAYLOR - clips.cato.org</a></h2></div><div class="E2eLOJr8HctVnDOTM8fs" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="OgdwYG6KE2qthn9XQWFC" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: var(--line-height-result-snippet-main); vertical-align: baseline;">JERRY TAYLOR ARCHIVE | LOG IN DECEMBER 8, 2010 4:00 A.M. Ethanol: Let Protectionism Expire ... — Harry de Gorter is a professor at Cornell University and a visiting fellow at the Cato Institute, where Jerry Taylor is a senior fellow. 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