"Was the Clean air act intended to cover CO2?" This is a hugely complicated and hotly contested issue, but the title link to a ScienceInsider article by Eli Kintisch does a very nice job at clarifying the differing positions. Most interesting to me is that when the Clean Air Act of 1970 was being considered, climate effects due to pollutants were part of the considerations. From the article:
"There’s evidence that during the drafting of the act and its subsequent amendments that climate was one of the dangers Congress was thinking about. In 1970, as mentioned here, Senator Caleb Boggs (R-DE) said during debate on the law that “Air pollution alters climate and may produce global changes in temperature.” As laid out here, in 1977 a report by the House that accompanied an update to the law mentioned “possible weather and climate modifications” among the risks to particulate matter it was seeking to regulate."
As a side note, Eli Kintisch is author of the book, HACK THE PLANET. This is a book about geoengineering, which as he puts it, may be "Science's best hope - or worst nightmare - for averting climate catastrophe". Future posts on this blog will explore some of his thought provoking entries in this excellent book.
"There’s evidence that during the drafting of the act and its subsequent amendments that climate was one of the dangers Congress was thinking about. In 1970, as mentioned here, Senator Caleb Boggs (R-DE) said during debate on the law that “Air pollution alters climate and may produce global changes in temperature.” As laid out here, in 1977 a report by the House that accompanied an update to the law mentioned “possible weather and climate modifications” among the risks to particulate matter it was seeking to regulate."
As a side note, Eli Kintisch is author of the book, HACK THE PLANET. This is a book about geoengineering, which as he puts it, may be "Science's best hope - or worst nightmare - for averting climate catastrophe". Future posts on this blog will explore some of his thought provoking entries in this excellent book.
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