Global Warming Legislation Should Take Economic Approach

On the day of Senate hearings into global warming legislation that will feature industry representatives of some of the nation’s largest electric utilities as well as several environmental activists, National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) Senior Fellow H. Sterling Burnett issued Congress a warning: “Be careful of the economic backlash a preventative strategy to global warming will likely create.”

Likewise, recent research, including a study released by the NCPA, shows that causation aside, the most effective response to global warming is to directly attack the problems that warming is predicted to exacerbate – like coastal flooding, the spread of malaria and other tropical diseases and hunger – rather than through trying to slow the rise of greenhouse gases. For instance:

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