should.......chortle......guffaw......chuckle.........not...giggle.
Better now. Bit of a synaptic meltdown looking at this:
MOSCOW (Reuters) -- With solutions costing up to a mind-numbing $18,000,000,000,000,000, it is among the most expensive questions in history --
"How do you stop people from causing dangerous global warming?"
In the post below I was heading south along the Pacific coast to Panama City looking for big numbers on the cost to EU air carriers of cap-and-trade CO2 reduction proposals. The only big number I saw in P.C. was 34,500,000 (the number of shares of Planktos waiting to come ashore into U.S. markets). Sidebar- will the stock make landfall at Pender St. in Vancouver or the Maggot Mile in Boca?
I have a lot of bookmarks. Searching "Kyoto costs" turned up this CNN story from 3 1/2 years ago.
Based on talks with some pretty smart people I can confidently say,
$18 quadrillion; it's on the high side.
