Posted on 03/05/2018 8:06:08 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The estimated cost of measures to limit Earth-warming greenhouse gas emissions can be more than offset by reductions in deaths and disease from air pollution, researchers said on Saturday.
It would cost $22.1 trillion (17.9 trillion euros) to $41.6 trillion between 2020 and 2050 for the world to hold average global warming under two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), a team projected in The Lancet Planetary Health journal.
For the lower, aspirational limit of 1.5 C, the cost would be between $39.7 trillion and $56.1 trillion, they estimated.
But air pollution deaths could be reduced by 21-27 percent to about 100 million between 2020 and 2050 under the 2 C scenario, the team estimated, and by 28-32 percent to about 90 million at 1.5 C.
"Depending on the strategy used to mitigate climate change, estimates suggest that the health savings from reduced air pollution could be between 1.4-2.5 times greater than the costs of climate change mitigation, globally," they wrote.
Health costs from air pollution include medical treatment, patient care, and lost productivity.
The countries likely to see the biggest health savings were air pollution-ridden India and China, said the researchers, who used computer models to project future emissions, the costs of different scenarios for curbing them, and the tally in pollution-related deaths.
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Totally made up. They just pull this out of their butts.
Hey! You forgot the parenthetical BARF trigger alert in the title. ;-)
So then why don’t India and China make the changes since they are the only ones who will benefit.
And they are mixing particulate pollution, which has no link to climate, but does have significant health impacts, with Co2, which they claim is the cause of global warming yet has zero impact on health.
They use the same trick to claim the USA has horrible pollution. Take away Co2 as a "pollutant" and the USA's air is cleaner than Norway, Netherlands, Denmark, Switzerland, France, Germany, etc. In fact, we have some of the cleanest air on earth. With only a few exceptions, the only countries with cleaner air are extremely remote island nations.
CO2 is plant food. The US makes enormous amounts of plant food. The Left -- you know, the people who are so worried about starvation in the Third World -- are really upset that we produce so much plant food.
More idiotic junk....
Bunch of commie theoretical physicists....what could go wrong?
You are exactly correct. The left is pissed that our country has so much fertile land and so many smart farmers. So, the left has to work extra hard to interfere with our food supply...all in the interest of pulling our country down.
So the people of the world would be ~30 Trillion poorer with nothing to show for its sacrifice.
Of course the population would be a much more controlled population which is the real goal of this scam. That and a massive transfer of wealth.
Idiots and computers are a very toxic mix-if global temperatures went up or down a degree or two no-one has a clue what the consequences would be—the details would matter a whole lot.
And—if I was a cat I could have kittens. :-)
CO2 is not an air pollutant; it’s a natural element of the atmosphere, and, at least here in the U.S. we already meet or exceed acceptable levels of most auto-derived pollutants.
So where is the “health savings” and how is it that nuclear energy - to eliminate all use of coal would not be more economical and provide real reduction in pollution?
Figures don’t lie, but liars figure...
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