How The Recent U.S. Climate Legislation Measures Up: Not Exactly Gold Medal Performance

Forbes

4-25-2022

Hersh Shefrin

In 2022, 43 years after the release of the landmark Charney report which characterized the threat from human caused global warming, the U.S. finally passed global warming legislation. Better late than never. How big a deal is this? Answering this question sensibly requires that we place the aggregate numbers in context.