Wisconsin: Task force ignores the cost of reductions

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By neglecting to include any economic analysis of its sweeping proposals, the Governor’s Task Force on Global Warming has failed to accomplish its mandate. Instead, it has put forward a blueprint for dramatically curtailing our freedom and prosperity.

It simply doesn’t make sense to fight global warming at the state level — or even the national level — because atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, and, therefore, global average temperatures, are indifferent to the location of emissions. The well-intentioned efforts to address global warming in Wisconsin will send jobs and income out of the state without any environmental benefit to show for it.