"[W]e have at most ten years- not ten years to decide upon action, but ten years to alter fundamentally the trajectory of global greenhouse emissions."

James Hansen- "The Threat To The Planet"

Economics

The costs of not addressing atmospheric heating vastly exceed the costs of investing in carbon-free infrastructure now. Legislatures will spend more money in disaster response and broken infrastructure by failing to avert temperature rise. The private sector will experience greater losses and uncertainty in a world characterized by climate instability. While the transition to a carbon-free economy entails considerable cost, such an economy will provide efficiencies that will boost private sector economic growth.

Market Based Solutions

Tom Bowerman, Carbon Tax Would Put Energy Policy on the Right Road, Commentary, THE REGISTER GUARD, November 12, 2006.

Carbon Tax Center

Dallas Burtraw and Paul R. Portney, New Approaches to Energy and the Environment, Chapter 3: A Carbon Tax to Reduce the Deficit, 2004.

Ian W. H. Parry, Reducing Carbon Emissions: Interactions with the Tax System Raise the Cost

Katie Kelley, City Approves 'Carbon Tax' In Effort to Reduce Gas Emissions, Boulder Carbon Tax Legislation, NEW YORK TIMES, November 18, 2006.