The Cost of Climate Change Is Up 60 Percent

摘要

The U.S. Department of Energy's new efficiency standards for microwave ovens aren't exactly a sizzling read. Amid the dry, technical language it's easy to miss the significance of a few passages that the Obama administration tucked into the obscure regulation without consulting anyone. They amount to a sweeping change in the way the U.S. measures the effects of carbon emissions and will reverberate well beyond the kitchen.