In case you missed it, washingtonpost.com featured a set of graphics about a carbon cap on its home page all last weekend. A couple of them looked very familiar to us. Take a look.
We’ve been using a graph that tracks the price of emitting acid rain (sulfur dioxide) pollution for years now — like on this page, on how a cap works. Which of these illustrations do you think are most useful?
I was also intrigued by a post by Eric de Place over on Grist. He describes a cap on carbon pollution as a “magic self-adjusting carbon tax.” It’s a nice explanation of a cap’s price flexibility, which is one of its key advantages.