Cruces Atmospheric Sciences Forum – In science, the debate is never over!
The EPA estimates the social cost per ton of carbon released to the atmosphere (see https://www.epa.gov/climatechange/social-cost-carbon.) It could be argued that a better approach would be a cost benefit analysis of the use of fossil fuels. This would allow consideration for the benefits of the use of fossil fuels and not simply the costs – whether they be real or imaginary.
Anti-fossil fuel SCC relies on garbage models, ignores carbon benefits and hurts the poor
“If you could pick just one thing to reduce poverty, by far you 
would pick energy,” Bill Gates has said. “Access to energy is absolutely fundamental in the struggle against poverty,” World Bank VP Rachel Kyte and Nobel Prize Laureate Dr. Amartya Sen agree.
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