More on the Impact of The Financial Crisis

It looks like Europe, long the leader in climate change regulation may be getting cold feet on adopting the regulations because ofits financial impact, the Wall Street Journal reports here--http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2008/10/13/changed-climate-meltdown-has-europe-backpedaling-on-climate-caps/.

This is very bad news--and as shortsighted as can be. All estimates of the cost of climate change indicate that we will be getting a bargain by addressing the issues now and not waiting until catastropic effects--Tufts estimated in 2006 that the cost of climate change in the US alone would be as great as US$74 trillion. ase.tufts.edu/gdae/Pubs/rp/Climate-CostsofInaction.pdf

I hope that US regulators in the next administration will be less short sighted, but I fear not.