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Leading Climate Scientist: Cap and Trade Could Ruin US Economy
Northern
News Network
Thursday, Oct 29th, 2009
BILLINGS- As debate over climate change legislation
heats up on Capitol Hill, the Director of the University of
Montana’s Climate Change Studies Program, and a co-author
of a Nobel Prize winning report, says cap and trade legislation
could ruin the US economy.
During a Wednesday morning interview with statewide radio talk
show host Aaron Flint on “Voices of Montana,” Dr.
Steve Running said any climate change solution needs to involve
all nations.
“We have to have all the major nations in agreement on
future progress,” said Running.
Running is a co-author of the Nobel Prize winning Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change, and founder of the Climate Change Studies
program at the University of Montana. He added, “If the
US passed a cap and trade and other countries did not, it wouldn’t
work. It would ruin the US economy and it wouldn’t save
the climate either. So this is a global issue, the global climate
statistics are global in nature, global carbon emissions are
global in nature, and we really have to have an international
consensus of what to do. That is going to stretch our international
diplomacy to its limit, there’s no doubt about that.”
Nonetheless, Running called on the United States to show leadership
on the issue of addressing climate change, saying other countries
will follow suit.
"Voices of Montana" is a Northern News Network talk
show that airs statewide on more than a dozen radio stations
each weekday morning.
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