{"id":698,"date":"2009-03-06T15:21:28","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T20:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2009\/03\/06\/links-cool-graphics-and-magic-tax\/"},"modified":"2009-03-06T17:44:16","modified_gmt":"2009-03-06T22:44:16","slug":"links-cool-graphics-and-magic-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2009\/03\/06\/links-cool-graphics-and-magic-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Links: Cool Graphics and Magic Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/graphic\/2009\/02\/26\/GR2009022600572.html\" title=\"Graphics on Washingtonpost.com\">Take a look<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been using a graph that tracks the price of emitting acid rain (sulfur dioxide) pollution for years now &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edf.org\/article.cfm?contentID=9112\">like on this page, on how a cap works<\/a>. Which of these illustrations do you think are most useful?<\/p>\n<p>I was also intrigued by a post by Eric de Place over on Grist. He describes a cap on carbon pollution as a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/gristmill.grist.org\/story\/2009\/2\/2\/9857\/99433\">magic self-adjusting carbon tax<\/a>.&#8221; It&#8217;s a nice explanation of a cap&#8217;s price flexibility, which is one of its key advantages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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