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