Comments on: EPA’s Proposed Carbon “Pollution” Standard for New Power Plants http://www.carlineconomics.com/archives/1511 Applications of economics and science for rational public policy by Alan Carlin Tue, 02 Apr 2013 03:06:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Mike Haseler http://www.carlineconomics.com/archives/1511/comment-page-1#comment-116925 Mike Haseler Tue, 24 Jul 2012 22:26:23 +0000 http://www.carlineconomics.com/?p=1511#comment-116925 Economics!!! This will be right up your street. This from twitter: @ScotClimate: Scottish Government found to have lied on key figure. Is the Scottish Climate Bill dead?. Will the minister resign? http://bit.ly/OwkVl1 The Scottish government lied to politicians about key financial data which was central to the argument for the bill when they passed the Scottish Climate Change Bill. The government citing Stern said that the economic cost of a 2-3°C rise would be “between 5-20% of GDP”. In fact Stern suggests there may not be any net economic harm quoting figures of 0-3% The figures are so key to justifying the bill, that it really is difficult to see how this bill could withstand a legal challenge. … but the scandal gets worse. The Scottish paper (The Courier) which broke this story seems to have been lent on to remove the story. Presumably by someone in government. This is about as bad as we can get. It appears the world’s most enthusiastic government for climate change is now embroiled in lies & cover-up. Economics!!! This will be right up your street.

This from twitter:

@ScotClimate: Scottish Government found to have lied on key figure. Is the Scottish Climate Bill dead?. Will the minister resign? http://bit.ly/OwkVl1

The Scottish government lied to politicians about key financial data which was central to the argument for the bill when they passed the Scottish Climate Change Bill. The government citing Stern said that the economic cost of a 2-3°C rise would be “between 5-20% of GDP”. In fact Stern suggests there may not be any net economic harm quoting figures of 0-3%

The figures are so key to justifying the bill, that it really is difficult to see how this bill could withstand a legal challenge.

… but the scandal gets worse. The Scottish paper (The Courier) which broke this story seems to have been lent on to remove the story. Presumably by someone in government.

This is about as bad as we can get. It appears the world’s most enthusiastic government for climate change is now embroiled in lies & cover-up.

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