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Krugman: Get Ready for Climate Lies

Curbing emissions won't actually cost much

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(Newser) – If you liked the health care debate, you’re going to love the upcoming battle over climate change, says Paul Krugman. The House has already passed a decent bill, but the Senate battle will bring out “the usual suspects.” Some will keep insisting that global warming isn’t real. “But that argument is wearing thin—as thin as the Arctic pack ice,” which you can now drive ships through.

So instead, most opponents will argue that reducing emissions would cost too much. But those claims “are as bogus, in their own way, as climate denial.” The House bill would cost the average family just $160 a year by 2020, or 0.2% of income, according to CBO estimates. Opponents keep spouting more dire estimates, but they’re not based on competing findings. They’re based on lies. “The truth is that it’s relatively easy being green.”

Participants at an Energy Citizens rally in Anchorage, Alaska, to protest climate change legislation passed by the House and under consideration in the Senate, Aug. 31, 2009.
Participants at an Energy Citizens rally in Anchorage, Alaska, to protest climate change legislation passed by the House and under consideration in the Senate, Aug. 31, 2009.   (AP Photo/Al Grillo, file)
Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman delivers a speech at the Seoul Global Financial Conference in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, May 19, 2009.
Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman delivers a speech at the Seoul Global Financial Conference in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, May 19, 2009.   (AP Photo/ Hankuk Economic newspaper, HO)
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Doctor_Zaius
Sep 25, 09 7:56 AM CDT
Queue up Newsers know-nothing climate change deniers. Reply
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Doctor_Zaius
Sep 25, 09 9:02 AM CDT
Ask and ye shall receive
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dontlikeyou
Sep 25, 09 9:48 AM CDT
Krugman, the world has been hearing the lies about global warming for years now. Before, it was global cooling. Now the socialists who want to tax us in the name of the "common good" comrades are calling it "climate change" as if that is somehow going to make us run around in a panic. Liberals have no creedance except with other liberals. You are preaching to the choir and the congregation is looking at you like a complete moron.
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paul123
Sep 25, 09 9:52 AM CDT
How pious of you Zaius. How about Alan Carlin, the NASA scientist who doesn't by into man's contribution to climate change or the thousands of other scientists who have said in a petition that they don't ascribe to man made global warming. Are these people "know nothings" too?
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paul123
Sep 25, 09 9:53 AM CDT
"buy" into for all the grammar nazi's out there.
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