Opinion: I’ve changed my mind about carbon taxes

I am an economist, not a natural scientist. I have no way of telling, personally, whether global warming is occurring. But scientists, taken as a whole, seem pretty convinced, and I trust my economist colleague (Lord) Nick Stern’s review of the evidence. And whether it is man-made or natural climate change doesn’t matter: it will harm a lot of people, and we can prevent or reduce that by cutting carbon emissions.

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Posted on January 11, 2010 · in UK

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