States Sue to Block “Social Cost” of Carbon

[Elderberry]

The Post & Email by David Wojick 3/15/2021

"THE MOST ABSURD OF ALL"

Twelve states have asked a Federal Court to keep federal agencies from using the so-called Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases to calculate the benefits of emission reduction regulations.

The new cost estimates, ordered by President Biden on day one, claim enormous distant future damages from today’s emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide. Preventing these supposed damages could justify massive new regulations, but the States say this is illegal because Congress never authorized it.

The Social Cost of Carbon (SCC) has been around for some time. Obama introduced it as a policy measure, which Trump then canceled. Now Biden has brought it back and made it worse.

In a way SCC personifies the craziness of the climate scare. The whole scare is based on outlandish doomsday computer models and SCC is arguably the most absurd of all.

The fundamental absurdity of the Social Cost of Carbon is that it goes out 300 years to get the supposed economic damages due to today’s minor emissions of carbon dioxide. That’s right, these computer models claim to know what the world’s economy will be for the next 300 years. The claim is absurd because technological and economic progress make the future world unknowable.

More: https://www.thepostemail.com/2021/03/15/states-sue-to-block-social-cost-of-carbon/

[PeteS in CA]

IIRC, a couple of CA cities (SF and Oakland?) tried this dodge, suing oil companies for future "damages". They lost. I wonder if Kammy is behind the Feds doubling down on that frivolous non-cause of action.