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Re:Five Pacific islands disappear as sea levels rise by Qantourisc on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @02:47AM (#11673089)
If you have CO2 your burned something. And I doubt is was pure carbon you burned so your burned more. So now we have pollution. Cutting CO2 also cuts on pollution.
Re:Five Pacific islands disappear as sea levels rise by hueving on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @03:44AM (#11673344)
That's fine, but if CO2 didn't cause problems and we wanted to reduce pollution, do it directly, not indirectly because indirect regulation almost always leads to screwed up incentives. (e.g. finding something that produces almost no CO2 as a side effect but tons of other pollutants).

It's like banning Coca-Cola to reduce cavities so everyone just switches to Pepsi.