Comments on: See For Yourself! http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2008/04/05/see-for-yourself/ Dispatches from the Youth Climate Movement Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:09:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Caroline Howe http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2008/04/05/see-for-yourself/#comment-62518 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:29:55 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.wordpress.com/?p=4551#comment-62518 “As Congress prepares to debate new legislation to address the threat of climate change, opponents claim that the costs of adopting the leading proposals would be ruinous to the U.S. economy,” Professor Repetto says in his podcast. “The world’s leading economists who have studied the issue say that’s wrong. And you can find out for yourself.”

In the podcast at http://environment.yale.edu/news/5624-reducing-carbon-emissions-could-help-not/ you can watch Professor Repetto explain the program AND the implications. In short, the whole claim that mitigation will destroy the American economy is as faulty as that whole claim that climate change wasn’t happening at all…

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