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Cypress
07-25-2006, 09:58 AM
the cost of doing nothing, versus the cost of doing something:


Wash Post: In 2004...the U.S. government’s Energy Information Administration analyzed a carbon-cutting plan advanced by Sens. John McCain and Joe Lieberman, which aimed to stabilize greenhouse emissions. The energy administration estimated that reaching this target would cause U.S. GDP to be 0.4 percent less than it would otherwise have been in 2028. Since GDP was projected to grow by 90 percent between the time of the study and that year, this meant that the nation could address climate change and still experience growth of 89.6 percent over the period.

In 2001 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the most prestigious authority in the field, carried out a similar exercise . It calculated that stabilizing carbon emissions at an acceptable level — defined as slightly higher than today’s — would cause world GDP to be 4 percent than it would otherwise have been in 2050. Again, that is a modest cost — roughly one year of decent growth for the world economy - spread out over four decades.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/23/AR2006072300573.html?sub=AR

I'm Watermark
04-06-2013, 04:26 PM
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