$10 Trillion - Zero Return On Investment

Earth's climate has been changing for billions of years. Now we are going to prevent that with government programs. Sure.

Climate Deal Likely to Bear Big Price Tag

By JOHN M. BRODER

Published: December 8, 2009

WASHINGTON — If negotiators reach an accord at the climate talks in Copenhagen it will entail profound shifts in energy production, dislocations in how and where people live, sweeping changes in agriculture and forestry and the creation of complex new markets in global warming pollution credits.

So what is all this going to cost?

The short answer is trillions of dollars over the next few decades. It is a significant sum but a relatively small fraction of the world’s total economic output. In energy infrastructure alone, the transformational ambitions that delegates to the United Nations climate change conference are expected to set in the coming days will cost more than $10 trillion in additional investment from 2010 to 2030, according to a new estimate from the International Energy Agency.

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Anyone who can't see that these programs are nothing more than scams and money-making schemes for government-connected groups and individuals isn't really looking.