Global warming fight is affordable

[Cant trust em]

Global warming fight is affordable, says new report

Aggressively cutting carbon emissions would cost only 3 percent of world economic growth between now and 2030, says a UN-sponsored study endorsed by 105 countries.
By Peter N. Spotts | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
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Finally, good news about global warming: It's possible to virtually choke off emissions of greenhouse gases that scientists say are heating up the planet without also breaking the bank.

That's the key message in a report released May 4 by the UN-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The 38-page document, summarizing a larger tome of more than 1,000 pages, focuses on ways to curb greenhouse-gas emissions, mainly carbon dioxide, and on the economic effects that different approaches to cutting emissions could have.

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http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0504/p25s02-wogi.html

But I thought that if we did something about it we'd all be living in dumpsters under the highway. At least that's what I heard.

[razzleberry]

1. the people who get stuck with the bill...

are going to fight back.

That's just how life works.

[Kolesar]

2. what do you mean?

[razzleberry]

3. since the costs will not be allocated in a fair manner...

example

airlines think they are overtaxed.
situtation... fuel taxes per gallon, in the U.S.

car gasoline, 40 cents, typical total, state plus fed
jet fuel, domestic flight, four (4) cents
jet fuel, international, zero.

obviously, airlines think that cars are undertaxed.
politicians will do what the airlines want, until,
people who own cars will fight back.

other examples available

[Kolesar]

4. There is going to be some howling

I see what you mean!