http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/04/climate-change-report-debunk/

May 4, 2007


New Climate Change Report Debunks Key Right-Wing Talking Point On
Global Warming

Today, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released the
third part of its Assessment Report.

The first two parts of the report released earlier this year dealt
with the science

and impacts of climate change.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070311/D8NPKSRG2.html

This new part suggests mitigating global warming's effects can be done
at a "modest cost."

The right-wing has repeatedly advocated against taking bold action to
curtail carbon emissions by propagating fears that it would bring down
our economy:


Fox News: "Al Gore's Global Warming Movie: Could It Destroy Our
Economy?" http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/23/gore-economy/

Rush Limbaugh: "[Liberals] would have us destroy our economy and
millions of jobs based on pseudoscience."

James Inhofe: "Global warming is an alarmism. It's a type of a
hoax. The reality is that a cap on carbon is a cap on the economy."
http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/50367.html


The report sets a target of reducing global warming gas emissions by
at least 50 percent by 2050.

By employing the use of energy efficient methods
http://www.nwfdailynews.com/article/4085 and by increasing use in the
renewable energy area,
http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/story?id=48391 the IPCC
report says there is enormous potential for the cost-effective
deployment of energy systems that would help reduce pollution while
producing employment gains.

According to Bill Hare, one of the lead authors of the report, the
cost is manageable: http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2007/s1914984.htm


HARE:

Well, over the period to 2030 it's going to cost about, maximum, I
would say about 0.1 percent loss of annual GDP growth globally.

I'm not sure that would really be detected in terms of the
year-to-year variations in global growth.


"It has been shown for the first time that stopping climate pollution
in a very ambitious way does not cost a fortune," said Stephan Singer
of the World Wildlife Fund.

"There is no excuse for any government to argue that it is going to
cause their economy to collapse."
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2472879,00.html

____________________________________________

Harry

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/04/climate-change-report-debunk/

May 4, 2007

New Climate Change Report Debunks Key Right-Wing Talking Point On
Global Warming

Today, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released the
third part of its Assessment Report.

The first two parts of the report released earlier this year dealt
with the sciencehttp://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/03/science/earth/03climate.html?ex=132...
and impacts of climate change.http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070311/D8NPKSRG2.html

This new part suggests mitigating global warming's effects can be done
at a "modest cost."http://uk.reuters.com/article/homepageCrisis/idUKL04246322._CH_.24202...

The right-wing has repeatedly advocated against taking bold action to
curtail carbon emissions by propagating fears that it would bring down
our economy:

Fox News: "Al Gore's Global Warming Movie: Could It Destroy Our
Economy?"http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/23/gore-economy/

Rush Limbaugh: "[Liberals] would have us destroy our economy and
millions of jobs based on pseudoscience."http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/eibessential/estack/copy/conservativ...

James Inhofe: "Global warming is an alarmism. It's a type of a
hoax. The reality is that a cap on carbon is a cap on the economy."http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/50367.html

The report sets a target of reducing global warming gas emissions by
at least 50 percent by 2050.http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601101&sid=angZ_UiMJ6gM&refe...

By employing the use of energy efficient methodshttp://www.nwfdailynews.com/article/4085and by increasing use in the
renewable energy area,http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/story?id=48391the IPCC
report says there is enormous potential for the cost-effective
deployment of energy systems that would help reduce pollution while
producing employment gains.

According to Bill Hare, one of the lead authors of the report, the
cost is manageable:http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2007/s1914984.htm

HARE:

Well, over the period to 2030 it's going to cost about, maximum, I
would say about 0.1 percent loss of annual GDP growth globally.

I'm not sure that would really be detected in terms of the
year-to-year variations in global growth.

"It has been shown for the first time that stopping climate pollution
in a very ambitious way does not cost a fortune," said Stephan Singer
of the World Wildlife Fund.

"There is no excuse for any government to argue that it is going to
cause their economy to collapse."http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2472879,00.html

____________________________________________

Harry