Unmitigated climate change is likely to reduce the income of an average person on Earth by roughly 23 percent in 2100, according to estimates contained in research published today in the journal Nature that is co-authored by two University of California, Berkeley professors.
The findings indicate climate change will widen global inequality, perhaps dramatically, because warming is good for cold countries, which tend to be richer, and more harmful for hot countries, which tend to be poorer. In the researchers’ benchmark estimate, climate change will reduce average income in the poorest 40 percent of countries by 75 percent in 2100, while the richest 20 percent may experience slight gains.Berkeley News
Study finds climate change will reshape global economy
Kathleen Maclay
ht Brad Delong
According to Guy McPherson, humans will be fully or nearly extinct by 2030.
ReplyDeleteHis website is guymcpherson.com.
Climate change is a powerful political tool. It enables the powerless to imagine they are powerful. It fills a psychological need to feel in-control of the random and cruel environment. It is a flexible concept that can accommodate any number of scenarios to assist in policy objectives. Most usefully, it can remain detached from data and science through appeals to authority and can actually help build a cohesive culture of compliance and political unity. It is like a nationalism with fewer nasty side effects, unless of course their environmental engineering causes more problems than it solves.
ReplyDeleteClimate change is not detached from data and science, Ryan. Please don't spread disinformation.
ReplyDeleteI imagine you'll bring up the supposed 15-year pause in the globe warming. That's a big falsehood. Please see: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/04/global-warming-hasnt-paused-study-finds.
Climate has been changing every second of every minute as far back as the origins of the planet.
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ReplyDeleteStudy finds that most studies are wrong...
ReplyDeleteTyler, CO2 affects human cognition. It's reputable, Joe Romm, Progressive journal and Harvard School of Health, so surely it must be true.
ReplyDeleteRyan, you're suggesting that every major scientific academy in the world is wrong about climate change. I'm going to side with the academies.
ReplyDelete" you're suggesting that every major scientific academy in the world is wrong about climate change"
ReplyDeleteReally? Attacking your opponent by claiming they said something that they did not usually works better when you aren't arguing directly with them.
To refute your argument all I would have to do is show one scientific academy that disagrees. But I don't care if you agree, the actual measured data is out there, on ice coverage, sea level, storm frequency, and temperature. I'll argue about measured data all day. I won't argue about appeals to authority, my character, "what everyone thinks" and other non-sense.
I respect your right to do adopt any view you wish and argue it all day long. I just don't want to argue with you about it unless it is based on science or real, physical measurements that matter to everyone else in the world. I deleted the two posts last night because I didn't feed the troll, but I was tempted this morning when I saw the progressive climate article. I shouldn't have. I don't expect you to read or agree with my comments since they don't fit in your world. Just ignore them. Less time wasted.
Find me one major, respected scientific academy that rejects climate science.
ReplyDeleteI would love to be proven wrong about climate change, Ryan.
ReplyDeleteNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) analysis shows that the global sea surface in September 2015 was the warmest on record http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2015/10/september-2015-sea-surface-warmest-on-record.html?spref=tw
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