{"id":18552,"date":"2018-12-05T09:37:59","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T15:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=18552"},"modified":"2018-12-05T09:37:59","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T15:37:59","slug":"that-darn-climate-change-conspiracy-ctd-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/12\/05\/that-darn-climate-change-conspiracy-ctd-40\/","title":{"rendered":"That Darn Climate Change Conspiracy, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the salient problems of climate change<\/a> agreements are cheaters<\/em>. Here’s Nobel Winner Professor William Nordhaus, from a report<\/a> in WaPo<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

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Nordhaus has blamed the lack of climate policy progress on the strong incentive for what economists call \u201cfree-riding.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople free-ride when they jump the turnstile on the subway,\u201d he said. \u201cNations free-ride in military treaties such as NATO when they enjoy the benefits of the strong U.S. military to protect them while doing little to pay for the common defense.\u201d<\/p>\n

And when it comes to climate change, he said, free-riding is \u201cparticularly pernicious.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Unfortunately, no solutions to this particular problem are presented in the article. Obviously, it’ll end up being a matter for international law, which may mean it’ll require attention from the sometimes impotent United Nations.<\/p>\n

If the United States wasn’t substantially in a position of denial when it comes to this problem, I’d say that it might be a good idea for Congress to pass legislation that would target cheaters in the future. I would suggest that perhaps tariffs would be automatically applied for those nations found to be in violation of their international obligations, except that there’d be a certain dark irony to such a proposal, given the United States’ decision to pull out of just such agreements.<\/p>\n

Corporate entities could also face reprisals, including those of an existential nature, for endangering the future of the human species.<\/p>\n

I wonder what the climate change community has come up with in this area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the salient problems of climate change agreements are cheaters. Here’s Nobel Winner Professor William Nordhaus, from a report in WaPo: Nordhaus has blamed the lack of climate policy progress on the strong incentive for what economists call \u201cfree-riding.\u201d \u201cPeople free-ride when they jump the turnstile on the subway,\u201d \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18552"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18556,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18552\/revisions\/18556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}