When I have only 60 seconds to explain why I do nt think man - made global warming will be catastrophic enough to warrant massively expensive
CO2 abatement programs, this is my argument:
In addition, strong
CO2 abatement programs are likely to knock a percent or two off economic growth rates and, if ethanol is still a preferred tactic, will likely substantially raise food prices as well.
They could begin Kyoto already looking like heroes, despite the fact that the reductions from 1990 - 1997 were almost all due to economic and political happenings unrelated to
CO2 abatement programs.
Not exact matches
Ellerman, A.D. and A. Decaux (1998), Analysis of Post-Kyoto
CO2 Emissions Trading Using Marginal
Abatement Curves, MIT Joint
Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, Report No. 40, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.