[MCN] Coal-socialism?

[Lance Olsen]

"And there are conservative solutions for warming. Some party 
members, in fact, see it as an inherently Republican issue: Carbon 
emissions, for example, distort the free market, forcing others to 
pay the higher and indirect costs of climate change (storm recovery, 
disaster relief) plus the health costs associated with air pollution.

"'We allow the coal industry to socialize its costs, and we 
conservatives don't like allowing people to socialize anything,' says 
former South Carolina Rep. Bob Inglis, who now explores free-market 
solutions to climate change as head of the Energy and Enterprise 
Institute at George Mason University.

"A revenue-neutral carbon tax, one that does not support other 
programs and instead goes back to households, could fix that 
distortion, he and others argue."

http://www.usnews.com/news/the-report/articles/2015/08/14/the-2016-election-is-critical-for-stopping-climate-change

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"Unfortunately, it is very difficult to measure ecological resilience 
in practice. Here we show that the rate of recovery from small 
perturbations (sometimes called "engineering resilience") is a 
remarkably good indicator of ecological resilience. Such recovery 
rates decrease as a catastrophic regime shift is approached, a 
phenomenon known in physics as 'critical slowing down.' We 
demonstrate the robust occurrence of critical slowing down in six 
ecological models and outline a possible experimental approach to 
quantify differences in recovery rates. In all the models we 
analyzed, critical slowing down becomes apparent quite far from a 
threshold point, suggesting that it may indeed be of practical use as 
an early warning signal."

Egbert H. van Nes  and Marten Scheffer.
Slow Recovery from Perturbations as a Generic Indicator of a Nearby 
Catastrophic Shift. 
the american naturalist june 2007

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