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  I think you made one false assumption in this article.  You write: "Worse, non-CO2 emissions, which accounted for 1,056 Tg in 2005, are probably fertile territory for quick and cost-effective fixes."

  Unfortunately, that fertile ground has been buried. Under section 332, CFCs, one of the highest non-CO2 emissions, 11,000 times CO2, is put in a separate auction that limits the bidders to the handful of companies that import or produce HFCs.  This will keep the price artifically low, (six bidders versus 1000s) so low that their will be no incentives to destroy those refrigerants.  Unfortunately, most will leak out into the atmosphere before 2020 undercutting a good percentage of what Waxman-Markey wants to do.

   

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