Biden administration’s ‘social cost of carbon’ measure is without basis in fact

[rangerrebew]

Biden administration’s ‘social cost of carbon’ measure is without basis in fact

My latest in the Washington Times (Web | PDF).
 
To advance its climate agenda, the Biden administration is seeking public comment on an effort to memory hole the realities of fossil fuels and drive punitive regulations by establishing a measure called the “social cost of carbon.”

The calculation of the social cost of carbon (SCC) was first ordered by a federal appeals court in 2008. Environmental activist groups and several blue states had sued the Bush administration for failing to consider any benefits of reducing CO2 emissions in setting more stringent fuel economy standards.

The Obama administration eagerly embraced the court order. In 2010, it set the SCC value at $31 per ton of carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted. This meant that every ton of emissions cost society $31 in unspecified and perhaps imaginary damages.

https://junkscience.com/2021/06/biden-administrations-social-cost-of-carbon-measure-is-without-basis-in-fact/

[Fishrrman]

Carbon HAS NO "social costs".
Without carbon, there is no life.
With it, there is.

If "carbon" has anything, it's social BENEFITS.