{"id":2428,"date":"2013-11-19T13:21:46","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T04:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=2428"},"modified":"2013-11-19T13:21:46","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T04:21:46","slug":"washington-post-november-18-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=2428","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post (November 18, 2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Little is definitively known about global warming, but it would be wise to take pragmatic measures. \u201cPutting a price on carbon\u2014through a tax on oil, coal and natural gas\u2014that reflects global warming\u2019s costs\u2026 would promote energy efficiency and favor renewables.\u201d But how would one determine the size of that carbon tax? \u201cWe don\u2019t know global warming\u2019s full effects\u2026. But we do know the size of the budget deficit, and we do know that revenue from a carbon tax might help finance a simplification of the income tax. By addressing multiple problems, an admittedly unpopular carbon tax might command broader support.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Little is definitively known about global warming, but it would be wise to take pragmatic measures. \u201cPutting a price on carbon\u2014through a tax on oil, coal and natural gas\u2014that reflects global warming\u2019s costs\u2026 would promote energy efficiency and favor renewables.\u201d But how would one determine the size of that carbon tax? \u201cWe don\u2019t know global [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2939,507,2941,2937,63,2940,2938,624,496],"class_list":["post-2428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-news","tag-budget-deficit","tag-carbon","tag-carbon-tax","tag-energy-efficiency","tag-global-warming","tag-income-tax","tag-renewables","tag-revenue","tag-support"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}