We passed the Clean Air Act to limit air polution and acid rain. Here's a wordy report from EPA on the effects of that legislation.
From the link, benefits: "The direct benefits of the Clean Air Act from 1970 to 1990 include reduced incidence of a number of adverse human health effects, improvements in visibility, and avoided damage to agricultural crops. Based on the assumptions employed, the estimated economic value of these benefits ranges from $5.6 to $49.4 trillion, in 1990 dollars, with a mean, or central tendency estimate, of $22.2 trillion."
From the link, costs: "The direct costs of implementing the Clean Air Act from 1970 to 1990, including annual compliance expenditures in the private sector and program implementation costs in the public sector, totaled $523 billion in 1990 dollars."
Sounds like a good deal to me!
More good news from the EPA.
If you don't believe me, maybe you will take Bush's word for it?
Canadian success story.
The Brits.
Our National Parks.
Current Events » in reply to Gloom and doom...The sky is falling...Really, it is...
Dude, read a book! (I hate it when you guys make me do websearches.)
The whole thread (27 posts)
- Global Warming is at least as dangerous as Nuclear, Chemical, or biological weapons...
- The fundamental problem is that we do NOT know what causes Global Warming!
- I don’t understand what motivates these people.
- but Mars and Pluto are also in global warming. who's polluting there? (n/t)
- re: "The United States, in an 'epic' abandonment of leadership, was largely responsible for the threat . . ."
- Preemptive action called for by environmentalists