Anti-fossil fuel SCC relies on garbage models, ignores carbon benefits and hurts the poor Foreword: The Social Cost of Carbon is a key foundation for numerous Obama-era energy policies, regulations and programs. Climate alarm activists insist the SCC is rooted in solid science and economics, but it is actually little more than Garbage In-Garbage Out…
The SCC drives war on fossil fuels but relies on faulty analyses that ignore carbon benefits Guest essay by Paul Driessen and Roger Bezdek The Social Cost of Carbon is the foundation for numerous Obama-era energy policies, regulations and programs. Under complex SCC metrics, agencies calculate the “hidden costs” of carbon dioxide emissions associated with…
WRITTEN STATEMENT OF PATRICK J. MICHAELS DIRECTOR CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF SCIENCE CATO INSTITUTE WASHINGTON, DC HEARING ON AT WHAT COST? EXAMINING THE SOCIAL COST OF CARBON BEFORE THE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Committee on Science, Space, and Technology SUBCOMMITTEE on Environment, SUBCOMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT FEBRUARY 28, 2017 My testimony concerns the selective science that underlies the existing federal determination of…
