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The reason behind all of this is the Global Warming hysteria. To accept Global Warming as reality, you need to accept the following:
(1) The world is getting warmer.
(2) Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the largest contributor to the ‘greenhouse effect’ – the cause of global warming.
(3) The cause of this increase is man’s activity, particularly the increase in anthropogenic carbon dioxide release.
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There are even more conditions that must exist before it would be worthwhile doing anything about CO2 emissions:
(4) If the world is getting warmer, the warming would have to result in such catastrophic impacts to make the "cure" less onerous than the sickness. I have seen no scientific consensus that the disease (climate change) will necessarily be catastrophic. In fact, I have seen some studies which indicate there may even be a net positive with global warming. However, the cure (reduction of greenhouse gases and its impact on our economy), would most likely be devastating to our way of life.
(5) The cost for a "cure" would have to be less than the cost of adaptation for it to be worthwhile. Some studies have indicated that it would be cheaper to just spend money to adapt to change.