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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (600115)2/8/2011 3:52:54 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1570709
 
"Isn't much of a pollutant" != "is of no concern".

Above every other consideration you seem to think more of cost than anything else.

The cost, to the extent they can be determined or even estimated with any accuracy, of more CO2 in the atmosphere, should also be a concern.

The problem is that we know the costs of slashing CO2 emission in the US will be high, while the benefits of doing so are dubious, particularly to the extent that it just drives heavy industry overseas and doesn't result in a world wide reduction of CO2.

If your going to try to reconfigure the US economy, at least partially through heavy handed central control, then you reasonably need to have very solid data on the reasons to do so, and the costs and benefits involved. We simply don't have that data. We don't know the effect on total CO2 reduction from any US reduction (the US could reduce without this reduction contributing to a net world reduction), if we did know that reducing American CO2 emission by X, would reduce world emission by Y, we still wouldn't know the climate effects of the Y reduction. If we did know the climate effects we wouldn't know the cost to deal with or cope with the changes.

The one thing we do know is that the cost of slashing CO2 emissions will be very high. High enough that it has to be a very important issue in any deliberation about possible attempts to rapidly cut CO2 emissions.
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