tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467119.post2561643805357469806..comments2023-10-24T10:09:22.146+01:00Comments on The Yorkshire Ranter: Criticisms of Contraction and ConvergenceAlexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17153530634675543954noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467119.post-64368404193836367142007-07-23T16:33:00.000+01:002007-07-23T16:33:00.000+01:00Wouldn't the ETS currently set up work just as wel...Wouldn't the ETS currently set up work just as well if china were to join, with the advantage that it doesn't look like British taxes are being sent to China?Matthewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13214026669109045616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467119.post-80378738211412158702007-07-14T08:38:00.000+01:002007-07-14T08:38:00.000+01:00OK - you ask for substantive criticism.http://www....OK - you ask for substantive criticism.<BR/><BR/>http://www.gci.org.uk/images/Contraction_and_Convergence_Risk_Analysis_Sink_Failure.mpg<BR/><BR/>Please look at the series of images at this links and choose a scenario [ppm value and rates of C&C i.e. including degree of risk] and then say whether you feel that your recommendation of 'tax' without such an international agreement is a sufficient response to the challenge.<BR/><BR/>That is about as substantive as it gets. <BR/><BR/>You can look at the images as stills at this draft: -<BR/><BR/>http://www.gci.org.uk/APGCC/test_booklet.pdf<BR/><BR/>or if you like and you send me your postal address i'll send you a copy of the DVD.<BR/><BR/>If you feel any of us can by-pass all of that I don't.<BR/><BR/>Aubrey MeyerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467119.post-5003238944404199402007-07-11T10:22:00.000+01:002007-07-11T10:22:00.000+01:00The effort expended in obliging the fat guy to swi...The effort expended in obliging the fat guy to swim to the shore may be more than compensated by the moral effect on the remaining bailers and rowers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467119.post-3536009162288774572007-07-10T18:41:00.000+01:002007-07-10T18:41:00.000+01:00Obviously, the people in the boat should try to pe...Obviously, the people in the boat should try to persuade the fat guy that they're floating on a sea of pie, so he'll jump overboard himself.JonHendryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06665311211621030117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467119.post-73321470064190452972007-07-10T03:24:00.000+01:002007-07-10T03:24:00.000+01:00I rather suspect that you copy this screed into ev...<I>I rather suspect that you copy this screed into every comments thread regarding C&C you find.</I><BR/><BR/>You're right. Googled it <A HREF="http://www.google.com/search?q=Copies+of+the+DVD+can+be+obtained+by+written+request+to+GCI+aubrey.meyer+%5Bat%5D+btinternet.com&hl=en&filter=0" REL="nofollow">for keywords</A>.Arkadyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05838423612315386095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467119.post-83358254592305061232007-07-09T16:01:00.000+01:002007-07-09T16:01:00.000+01:00I've decided to let your comment stand on the prin...I've decided to let your comment stand on the principle that anyone has a right to reply, even though you don't appear to have read the post you are commenting on. For example, "Holding this position usually results in the perception that climate change is a long-term problem that is probably beyond the wit of man to resolve" is a 180-degree misstatement of my views.<BR/><BR/>I rather suspect that you copy this screed into every comments thread regarding C&C you find. This is spam, but I am willing to tolerate it this once.<BR/><BR/>If you have substantive criticisms, please fire away.Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17153530634675543954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5467119.post-60073695498943083862007-07-09T15:44:00.000+01:002007-07-09T15:44:00.000+01:00This commentary falls prey to the old canard of ne...This commentary falls prey to the old canard of neo-classical economics that equity and efficiency are a trade-off. <BR/><BR/>This is asserted as true in the partial sense that exists in the short-term. Holding this position usually results in the perception that climate change is a long-term problem that is probably beyond the wit of man to resolve [which may indeed 'become true'].<BR/><BR/>However, responding to avoid dangerous climate change is a 'full-term' requirement. The UN Climate Convention requires that we stop atmospheric greenhouse-gas concentrations from rising out of our control. These are a stock that is rising. The emissions causing this rise are a flow; like a bath into which the tap is flowing, to avoid overspill the tap must be turned right off and this - to swithch back to the emissions - is the full-term requirement on which humanity's future now depend.<BR/><BR/>This requirement is the widely supported concept of Contraction and Convergence.<BR/><BR/>A DVD commissioned by the UK All Party Parliamentary Group on Climate Change presenting Contraction and Convergence has been distributed to all UK MPs and Peers. It is endorsed by numerous eminent spokespersons who are interviewed at length on the DVD.<BR/><BR/>Copies of the DVD can be obtained by written request to GCI aubrey.meyer [at] btinternet.com<BR/><BR/>Alternatively, as a large file [overnight download] interview material is retrievable at this link: - <BR/>http://www.gci.org.uk/images/Contraction_and_Convergence_Challen_et_al.mpg<BR/><BR/>The DVD also includes a heuristic animation of Contraction and Convergence for a risk analysis of different rates of sink-failure endorsed by prominent industry persons. This is a large file [overnight download] and is retrievable at this link:<BR/>http://www.gci.org.uk/images/Contraction_and_Convergence_Risk_Analysis_Sink_Failure.mpg<BR/><BR/>A context animation the arguments, presented at the Royal Institute of British Architects [RIBA] international conference in Venice last October, is here: -<BR/>http://www.gci.org.uk/images/Final_presentation.exe or<BR/>http://www.gci.org.uk/images/CandC_model_context_animation.swf<BR/>[Note: - touch buttons to advances *within* scenes and touch logos to advance *between* scenes].<BR/><BR/>GCI’s definition statement for C&C is here: -<BR/>http://www.gci.org.uk/briefings/ICE.pdf<BR/><BR/>General referencing for the C&C provenance is here: -<BR/>http://www.gci.org.uk/links/detail.pdf<BR/><BR/>A concept/context map of C&C comparing three rates of change for<BR/><BR/>[a] Contraction and Concentrations<BR/>[b] Contraction and Convergence<BR/>[c] Benefits of Growth versus Damages from Climate<BR/>[d] Contraction and Conversion<BR/><BR/>is here: - http://www.gci.org.uk/images/Deepat_Bonn.pdf <BR/><BR/>Some promotional material is here: -<BR/>http://www.gci.org.uk/Movies/Contraction_and_Convergence_Promo.mpgAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com