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The scientific verdict is in.. A VAST majority of scientists agree that our Global Warming cycle is..
Mostly man made, and demonstrates a very disturbing trend, that left unchecked will dramatically alter earth's biosphere for the worse (that's being optimistic).
The resulting biosphere may not even support human life or any mammals!! It's happened before, during the primerian-triassic extinction event, except this time it will be mankinds fault. After that event earth's dominate lifeform was Fungi!!
As for the cost of C02.. Pick a time frame..
30.. 50.. 100 years before the effects become irreversible.. Guaranteeing the lost of our costal regions and maybe a lot more. What was is the property value of those regions, in my area it's running ~3-8 million dollars per acre. It will all be underwater with NO possibility of protecting it from the rising sea level. Divide that value lost by the number years we've got left before it's too late.
Here is one example.. Estimate 500 trillion dollars of costal property value to be lost if we do nothing about CO2 in 50 years == 10 trillion dollars per year of pre-ordained losses if we do nothing, starting now.
Adjust that for our oil industry/consumption CO2 output(30%).. Down to ~3 Trillion dollars per annum for Oil's CO2 contribution .. divided that number by annual US oil consumption.. (15mbbl/day * 365) == today's CO2 emissions cost of 547$ per barrel of oil.
For Coal.. the number's even worse,
currently ~30 of the US's CO2 output, verses 1,131 million short tons of production.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/coal/page/acr/acr_sum.html
Plug those numbers into the equation..
($5.00 E+14 (50 year committed cost) *.30(percentage contribution)/ 50(years) / 1.131E+9(current use) == today's CO2 cost of 2,625$ per short ton of coal. (current market price 45 to 60$ per ton)
Pick any reasonable time frame you wish.. Plug in the value of committed losses to CO2 pollution and GW. Some group of property owners/farmers/governments is going to loose big time and some states may disappear entirely!
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Finally.. what happens when mankind's CO2 emissions trigger an E.L.E. and wipes out nearly ALL of the animals and MOST of the plants. If there is a GOD, do you really think he will judge mankind with compassion? I wouldn't, to me that's a crime beyond the crime of mass murder, genocide, Hitler, Stalin, Moa Se Tung all put together.
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As for states regulating CO2 output which is a function of fuel usage. I see no problem, States can already impose fuel use taxes... Gasoline tax, diesel tax, etc. I see no difference basing those usage taxes on a slightly different criteria. - Posted by: thetruth_z Posted on: 11/29/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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