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Inaction on climate change would cost billions, major EPA study finds
Washington Post ^ | June 22, 2015 | by Joby Warrick

Posted on 06/22/2015 3:11:56 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

A global agreement to curb greenhouse gas emissions would prevent nearly 70,000 premature American deaths annually by the end of the century while sparing the country hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of economic losses, according to a major government study on the cost of climate change.

The report, a five-year, peer-reviewed analysis that assesses the benefits of alternative strategies for dealing with climate change, concludes that every region of the country could be spared severe economic disruptions that would result if greenhouse gas concentrations continue to soar.

“The results are quite startling and very clear,” said EPA administrator Gina McCarthy, whose agency was the chief sponsor of the report. “Left unchecked, climate change affects our health, infrastructure and the outdoors we love. But more importantly the report shows that global action on climate change will save lives.”

The report concludes that the effort expended in combating climate change would yield a substantial dividend for Americans, with the benefits accumulating over time.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


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KEYWORDS: climatechange; communism; epa; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; hoax; manbearpig; popefrancis; romancatholicism; socialism
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1 posted on 06/22/2015 3:11:56 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Inaction on climate change would cost billions, major EPA study finds”

In other news... Action on Climate Change will Cost Trillions


2 posted on 06/22/2015 3:13:09 PM PDT by navyguy (The National Reset Button is pushed with the trigger finger.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Gina McCarthy is a LIAR!


3 posted on 06/22/2015 3:13:54 PM PDT by 43north (BHO: 50% black, 50% white, 100% RED.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hey, Gina. If we fry a few million people, think of all the money we’ll save on Healthcare and Obamaphones.


4 posted on 06/22/2015 3:14:37 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Stop it! Just Stop it..!


5 posted on 06/22/2015 3:15:16 PM PDT by cardinal4 (Certified Islamophobe..)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Bullshi...er...bull Obamatalk.


6 posted on 06/22/2015 3:15:49 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The Cooling World
Newsweek, April 28, 1975

There are ominous signs that the Earth's weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production– with serious political implications for just about every nation on Earth. The drop in food output could begin quite soon, perhaps only 10 years from now. The regions destined to feel its impact are the great wheat-producing lands of Canada and the U.S.S.R. in the North, along with a number of marginally self- sufficient tropical areas – parts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indochina and Indonesia – where the growing season is dependent upon the rains brought by the monsoon.

The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologists are hard-pressed to keep up with it. In England, farmers have seen their growing season decline by about two weeks since 1950, with a resultant overall loss in grain production estimated at up to 100,000 tons annually. During the same time, the average temperature around the equator has risen by a fraction of a degree – a fraction that in some areas can mean drought and desolation. Last April, in the most devastating outbreak of tornadoes ever recorded, 148 twisters killed more than 300 people and caused half a billion dollars' worth of damage in 13 U.S. states.

To scientists, these seemingly disparate incidents represent the advance signs of fundamental changes in the world's weather. The central fact is that after three quarters of a century of extraordinarily mild conditions, the earth's climate seems to be cooling down. Meteorologists disagree about the cause and extent of the cooling trend, as well as over its specific impact on local weather conditions. But they are almost unanimous in the view that the trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century. If the climatic change is as profound as some of the pessimists fear, the resulting famines could be catastrophic.

"A major climatic change would force economic and social adjustments on a worldwide scale," warns a recent report by the National Academy of Sciences, "because the global patterns of food production and population that have evolved are implicitly dependent on the climate of the present century."

A survey completed last year by Dr. Murray Mitchell of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reveals a drop of half a degree in average ground temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere between 1945 and 1968. According to George Kukla of Columbia University, satellite photos indicated a sudden, large increase in Northern Hemisphere snow cover in the winter of 1971-72. And a study released last month by two NOAA scientists notes that the amount of sunshine reaching the ground in the continental U.S. diminished by 1.3% between 1964 and 1972.

To the layman, the relatively small changes in temperature and sunshine can be highly misleading. Reid Bryson of the University of Wisconsin points out that the Earth's average temperature during the great Ice Ages was only about seven degrees lower than during its warmest eras – and that the present decline has taken the planet about a sixth of the way toward the Ice Age average. Others regard the cooling as a reversion to the "little ice age" conditions that brought bitter winters to much of Europe and northern America between 1600 and 1900 – years when the Thames used to freeze so solidly that Londoners roasted oxen on the ice and when iceboats sailed the Hudson River almost as far south as New York City.

Just what causes the onset of major and minor ice ages remains a mystery. "Our knowledge of the mechanisms of climatic change is at least as fragmentary as our data," concedes the National Academy of Sciences report. "Not only are the basic scientific questions largely unanswered, but in many cases we do not yet know enough to pose the key questions."

Meteorologists think that they can forecast the short-term results of the return to the norm of the last century. They begin by noting the slight drop in overall temperature that produces large numbers of pressure centers in the upper atmosphere. These break up the smooth flow of westerly winds over temperate areas. The stagnant air produced in this way causes an increase in extremes of local weather such as droughts, floods, extended dry spells, long freezes, delayed monsoons and even local temperature increases – all of which have a direct impact on food supplies.

"The world's food-producing system," warns Dr. James D. McQuigg of NOAA's Center for Climatic and Environmental Assessment, "is much more sensitive to the weather variable than it was even five years ago." Furthermore, the growth of world population and creation of new national boundaries make it impossible for starving peoples to migrate from their devastated fields, as they did during past famines.

Climatologists are pessimistic that political leaders will take any positive action to compensate for the climatic change, or even to allay its effects. They concede that some of the more spectacular solutions proposed, such as melting the Arctic ice cap by covering it with black soot or diverting arctic rivers, might create problems far greater than those they solve. But the scientists see few signs that government leaders anywhere are even prepared to take the simple measures of stockpiling food or of introducing the variables of climatic uncertainty into economic projections of future food supplies. The longer the planners delay, the more difficult will they find it to cope with climatic change once the results become grim reality.

The Cooling World:
http://denisdutton.com/cooling_world.htm

Original Newsweek article with scary maps and graphs:
http://denisdutton.com/newsweek_coolingworld.pdf


7 posted on 06/22/2015 3:16:12 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So if we give them all our money now we won’t lose some of it later. I get it.


8 posted on 06/22/2015 3:17:28 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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>>by the end of the century

That’s 85 years from now! Look at how life has changed since 1930 and the change has not been linear. No one knows what great energy sources and technologies we will have by 2100, but one thing is for certain: if we start killing millions now by taking away cheap and abundant energy, 2100 will not be better than 2015.


9 posted on 06/22/2015 3:17:39 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The sky is falling! We’re gonna die! Oh no!


10 posted on 06/22/2015 3:20:18 PM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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>>So if we give them all our money now we won’t lose some of it later. I get it.

Not at all. 85 years from now, Progressives will be screaming that there isn’t enough CO2 to feed the trees so we need to “invest” quintillions more to create CO2 or “we’ll have no more plant life by the end of the (next) century”.


11 posted on 06/22/2015 3:20:40 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: navyguy

Great minds think alike ;-)


12 posted on 06/22/2015 3:21:36 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Action on climate change would cost trillions.


13 posted on 06/22/2015 3:23:31 PM PDT by jdege
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Do this people even realize they have become a laughing stock ?


14 posted on 06/22/2015 3:24:38 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Inaction won't cost a penny. CO2 is irrelevant to the climate.

Global Warming is not due to human contribution of Carbon Dioxide - Global Warming: The Cold, Hard Facts? By Timothy Ball

No Smoking Hot Spot (The Australian)

The missing hotspot (JoNova)

Those two articles take Greenhouse Theory at face value and by the criterion set up in the theory itself finds no evidence of warming on the basis of greenhouse effect.

Sky-high hole blown in AGW theory?

"Forbes reports on a peer-reviewed study that uses NASA data to show that the effects of carbon-based warming have been significantly exaggerated. In fact, much of the heat goes out into space rather than stay trapped in the atmosphere, an outcome that started long before AGW alarmists predicted:"

That article explains why no Hot Spot has been found.

The Hidden Flaw in Greenhouse Theory

Falsification Of The Atmospheric CO2 Greenhouse Effects Within The Frame Of Physics

Harvard astrophysicist dismisses AGW theory, challenges peers to 'take back climate science'

It Is Impossible For A 100 ppm Increase In Atmospheric CO2 Concentration To Cause Global Warming

Simple Chemistry and the Real Greenhouse Effect.

Those five articles each show that Greenhouse Theory has no basis in reality due to a direct conflict with the known laws of physics. No wonder the smoking gun "hotspot" can't be found.

Claim That Sea Level Is Rising Is a Total Fraud

That article kills any thought of planetary warming from any cause. Think about it. If there is absolutely no sign of an acceleration of sea level rise how could the planet be warming? The rise in sea level in the last 100 years is far less than the average over the last 18,000 years caused by the inter-glacial period we are in.

15 posted on 06/22/2015 3:24:50 PM PDT by TigersEye (If You Are Ignorant, Don't Vote!)
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Sadly, it is going to take decades to deprogram the population of the USA of this nonsense...


16 posted on 06/22/2015 3:31:10 PM PDT by Popman (Christ Alone: My Cornerstone...)
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...cost billions in lost tax dollars taken from companies and private citizens and given to political donors...
Fixed.


17 posted on 06/22/2015 3:34:19 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Barbra Streisand! I will save plenty of money heating my house in winter with global warming. Here in Seattle area, I do not even have an air-conditioner in our house. We do not need it! Seldom gets above 80 in summer.


18 posted on 06/22/2015 3:38:24 PM PDT by entropy12
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Argh, we’re all gonna’ die!


19 posted on 06/22/2015 3:51:00 PM PDT by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The same EPA that banned over the counter inhalers?

Nothing they say can be trusted. They are society’s enemy.


20 posted on 06/22/2015 3:55:53 PM PDT by umgud (When under attack, victims want 2 things; God & a gun)
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