Carbon

According to the Congressional Budget Office, the average U.S. household will pay $1,161 a year in higher energy prices when carbon emissions are reduced 15 percent.

Everyone wants to know the number of new jobs that will result from a move to an advanced energy economy. My pat answer is, "It's likely to be a very big number, but no one can possibly quantify it."

Yesterday, I testified to Congress about global warming, 20 years after I first alerted the public that warming was underway. There are striking similarities between then and now, but one big difference.

Current debates about energy independence are future-oriented, and will do nothing in the short term to ease economic woes. Let's use the internet to stop the bleeding: take up the following challenge.

We find the practitioners of this dismal science in the midst of a wonky civil war. They are divided into two camps: those who favor a carbon tax and those who prefer cap and trade.