Apocalyptic Claims About Climate Change Are Wrong

Re:Apocalyptic Claims About Climate Change Are Wrong by shkkmo on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @11:12AM (#21649090)

> we’ll start emitting less carbon dioxide (good!) But we’ll lose out on much of this “subsidy”, too.

You mean we will have to pay less to deal with the health effects of air pollution and and the economic effects of global warming? I'm not clear what subsidy we "miss out on" here.

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Re:Apocalyptic Claims About Climate Change Are Wrong by wutbrodo on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @02:57PM (#21651443)

I agree that pricing the externalities is fairly counted, but the GP comment framing it as a subsidy is still dishonest: someone could easily read that Stat and decide that you can add the $N trillion from carbon tax revenue to the $5T in removed subsidy, and they'd end up overcounting by about $4.5T

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