Posted on 07/12/2022 2:02:59 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
For decades, environmental activists along with some government officials and scientists have argued that rich countries should pay the most to address climate change, and even pay poor countries reparations, because industrialized nations have historically emitted the most greenhouse gases.
A new study by two Dartmouth scientists aims to calculate just how much economic impact larger emitters have caused other nations. Published Tuesday in the journal Climatic Change, the study says the figures could be used in courtrooms and in international climate negotiations about payments from rich nations that burn more coal, oil and gas, to poor countries damaged by emissions.
For example, the data shows that the top carbon emitter over time, the United States, has caused more than $1.9 trillion in climate damage to other countries from 1990 to 2014, including $310 billion in damage to Brazil, $257 billion in damage to India, $124 billion to Indonesia, $104 billion to Venezuela and $74 billion to Nigeria. But at the same time, the United States’ own carbon pollution has benefited the U.S. by more than $183 billion.
“Do all countries look to the United States for restitution? Maybe,” said study co-author Justin Mankin, a Dartmouth College climate scientist. “The U.S. has caused a huge amount of economic harm by its emissions, and that’s something that we have the data to show.”
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It’s shakedown time!
Sri Lanka collapses. The Netherlands are in turmoil.
“I know! Let’s double-down on stupid and send them our money, because we owe them reparations anyway.”
[record scratches]
What culture caused The Bronze Age Collapse? We need to go after their progeny so we can get our bronze back!
The earth has been frozen a mile deep and been hit by moon-sized meteors and survived just fine, there’s NOTHING we can do to hurt it.
Garbage in, garbage out.
I feel sooooo guilty. I’ll give up AC in the summer, heat in winter, and stop driving my old gas guzzling SUV. But really to atone, I will go on an Ethiopian diet (aka Karen Carpenter diet).
Of course they did. How much are they asking for this time?
The Communist countries did more damage to the environment than the rest of the world combined, during the Cold War.
The politicization of science has made every study unreliable and completely useless especially if they involve political subjects.
More whining from the nonproductive losers of the world trying to run another free money scam. F ‘em all...
The true harm is the globalists strangling their food and energy supplies 🤪
Lemme guess, the “study” was funded by China, right?
Dartmouth. 'Nuff said.
China
The “poor” nations should start a “GoFundMe” to bail their lazy asses out.
I agree, CHINA has caused MASSIVE harm!
Well they blamed slavery on the U.S. They might as well blame climate change on us as well. I knew this was going to happen once they started legalizing drugs. It’s the U.S.’s fault.
“What culture caused The Bronze Age Collapse?”
Get SC to ping the GGG list, maybe they can figure it out.
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