Time’s Bryan Walsh reports on a new study Nature Geoscience that discusses what increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could do all over the world – mostly lots of glacier melting, sea level rises and desertification. Walsh calls the study “an imperfect study, to say the least” but the real point of contention is the tipping point for the amount of carbon that can be in the atmosphere. Walsh writes:

As of 2100, CO2 concentration in the atmosphere reach some 1,000 ppm—two and a half times the current level, and well above the 450 or 350

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Reporting for Time, Bryan Walsh writes under the header What the Energy Bill Really Means for CO2 Emissions:

But critics have vastly overstated the likely cost. In fact, they’re all but lying. During the House debate, Republican whip Eric Cantor, using numbers from an American Petroleum Institute study, said that the bill would eventually cost more than $3,000 per family per year … A more reliable study from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office forecast that the bill would cost the average U.S. household $175 in higher energy costs annually by 2020…

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