Thursday, February 15, 2007

Illustrious carbon tax advocates

From the brief submitted by David Boyd to the Bill C30 review committee last week, here are some carbon tax supporters:
  1. Al Gore, former Vice-president of the United States
  2. Alan Greenspan, former Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve
  3. Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize winner, former Chief Economist at the World Bank
  4. Nicholas Stern, author of the most comprehensive look at the economics of climate change, written on behalf of the UK government
  5. James Rogers, Chairman and CEO, Duke Energy
  6. Mark Jaccard, Simon Fraser University, author of The Cost of Climate Policy and Sustainable Fossil Fuels13
  7. James Hansen, Director, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
  8. Gregory Mankiw, Chair of the President’s Council on Economic Advisers, 2003-2005, and Harvard professor
  9. William Moomaw, Director of the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy, Tufts University
  10. Kenneth Rogoff, Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Harvard University, former chief economist at the IMF.
  11. Paul Krugman, economist, professor at Princeton, N.Y. Times columnist
  12. Thomas Friedman, author of The Lexus and the Olive Tree
  13. Richard Posner, economist, judge
  14. William Nordhaus, economist, Yale University
  15. Robert N. Stavins is the Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
  16. Edward Snyder, Dean of the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business
  17. Theodore Roosevelt IV, Lehman Bros. executive
  18. Jeffrey Sachs, economist, professor at Columbia, advisor to UN, IMF, World Bank
  19. Lester Brown, Earth Policy Institute.
  20. Jacques Chirac, President of France
  21. The Economist, The Greening of America. Jan 25, 2007
Even
  1. the American Enterprise Institute, a right wing think tank
  2. the U.S. Congressional Budget Office
  3. Ross McKitrick, University of Guelph, climate change skeptic

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Fantastic site. This and www.carbontax.org are awesome. As a Conservative (and conservative) environmentalist, I think this may be an issue that the right can do the right thing with less political damage than the Liberals. As for supporters, you can add:
David Frum
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/shows/2006/10/18/AM200610181.html

David Cameron
http://www.conservatives.com/tile.do?def=news.story.page&obj_id=129341

Irwin Seltzer (Weekly Standard)
http://achangeinthewind.typepad.com/achangeinthewind/2006/01/another_conserv.html

Charles Krauthammer
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/25/AR2007012501547_pf.html

Jim Immelt, CEO of General Electric

Mr. Ignatieff and

other crunchy cons?

Jeff_in_Montreal said...

Thanks very much for the comments - interesting to see that Frum is a supporter as well. Its too bad that the Conservatives have decided to so vehemently attack the Liberals on carbon taxes - now they can't embrace the idea without looking like flip-floppers, which I can't imagine them doing. Looks like a missed opportunity for someone with Steven Harper's grasp of economic fundamentals.