{"id":670,"date":"2008-10-27T15:28:19","date_gmt":"2008-10-27T20:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2008\/10\/27\/debate_about_video_competition\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T15:43:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T20:43:38","slug":"debate_about_video_competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2008\/10\/27\/debate_about_video_competition\/","title":{"rendered":"A Debate About Our Video Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1.125rem;color: initial\">A few weeks ago we posted about our <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 1.125rem\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2008\/09\/24\/visual_design_competition\/\">video design competition &#8211; $10,000 to the winner<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1.125rem;color: initial\">\u00a0 &#8211; for depicting how a cap on greenhouse gases can solve our addiction to oil. Joe Romm on Climate Progress had a problem with this &#8211; <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 1.125rem\" href=\"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/2008\/10\/09\/edfs-bizarre-10000-contest-what-is-a-carbon-cap-and-how-will-it-cure-our-oil-addiction\/\">said we were asking the impossible<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1.125rem;color: initial\"> since a cap wouldn&#8217;t do this.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I responded to Romm&#8217;s objection on the Environmental Economics blog with a post titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.env-econ.net\/2008\/10\/bizarre-no-toug.html\">&#8220;Bizarre&#8221;? No. Tough? Yes.<\/a> But that wasn&#8217;t the end of it. Romm fired back, <a href=\"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/2008\/10\/15\/edfs-and-mits-magical-thinking-on-carbon-caps-and-oil\/\">accusing EDF of &#8220;magical thinking&#8221;<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stay tuned &#8211; I&#8217;ll be posting a response to Romm&#8217;s second post this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This post is by <a title=\"Gernot Wagner's profile\" href=\"http:\/\/edf.org\/page.cfm?tagID=22352\">Gernot Wagner, Ph.D.<\/a>, an economist in the Climate and Air program at Environmental Defense Fund.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago we posted about our video design competition &#8211; $10,000 to the winner\u00a0 &#8211; for depicting how a cap on greenhouse gases can solve our addiction to oil. Joe Romm on Climate Progress had a problem with this &#8211; said we were asking the impossible since a cap wouldn&#8217;t do this. 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