Monday, February 7, 2011

Costs of inaction: the economics of high-end warming


BY Eban Goodstein
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2 FEB 2011

Perhaps nowhere is the contrast between the science and economics of climate change as great as in the dueling metaphors governing the impact of high-end warming: "collapse" (following scientist Jared Diamond) vs. "reductions in the rate of growth" (following all standard integrated assessment models in economics, including those of Nicholas Stern and the IPCC)...

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