Calgary Herald

Climate change requires action

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Re: “A carbon tax for a cooling world,” Letter, April 6.

Simply go to the NASA website to see that the trend line in global temperatur­e is very clearly continuous­ly upward.

The letter goes on to damn the “economical­ly crippling ” carbon tax. Where is the evidence for that assertion?

Your readers may like to note that Sweden has a carbon price of about $170 per ton, yet has one of the strongest economies in Europe.

As stated by the World Bank: “Sweden has the rare distinctio­n of having consistent­ly curbed carbon dioxide emissions over the past two-and-a-half decades while enjoying solid growth.”

It can be done and does not have to be economical­ly crippling.

It is time to acknowledg­e that anthropoge­nic climate change is a reality, is serious, and needs urgent action. Geoffrey King, Calgary

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