For years, global warming advocates have argued that
implementing some sort of carbon tax would substantially reduce
the amount of carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere by the
heavily industrialized United States. The idea, they say, is
that a carbon tax would ultimately lead to fewer harmful,
climate-changing emissions because of the higher cost associated
with creating them in the first place. The tax would provide an
additional incentive to conserve energy. But climate researcher
Paul Knappenberger, in a paper published in November, said even
if the U.S. parked every plane, train and automobile, and
shuttered every factory, the impact on global carbon emissions
would amount to little or nothing – making the imposition of a
carbon tax useless. Effects on global climate change
‘negligible’ “Using assumptions based on the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Assessment Reports, if the U.S.
as a whole stopped emitting all carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions
immediately, the ultimate impact on proje