If this post is true (I suppose that they can tag isotopes of mercury and be reasonably sure of where it came from (?)) then it seems that the "we need a carbon tax to control global energy use" crowd needn't fight the carbon doubters anymore. Pretty much everyone agrees that atmospheric mercury is anthropocentric and potentially harmful to people. So we'll just get the Chinese to sign the ______ Protocol (please pick a pleasant location for the conference--maybe the tropics in winter). I'm sure they will.
Oh. Wait. Maybe they won't. Maybe the strategic/geopolitical dimension of carbon taxation is something that 99.9% of environmental economists are either oblivious or choose to ignore because it isn't in the model.
Note: the French still come out looking good here. Nuke plants still don't emit Hg.
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