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- From: szabo@techbook.com (Nick Szabo)
- Subject: Re: --Warming Threat to Economy
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.094843.20185@techbook.com>
- Organization: TECHbooks --- Public Access UNIX --- (503) 220-0636
- References: <1466601760@igc.apc.org> <STEINLY.92Sep10140417@topaz.ucsc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 09:48:43 GMT
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- In article <STEINLY.92Sep10140417@topaz.ucsc.edu> steinly@topaz.ucsc.edu (Steinn Sigurdsson) writes:
- >In article <1466601760@igc.apc.org> tgray@igc.apc.org (Tom Gray) writes:
- >
- >
- > degrees Celsius (C) by the year 2050 will reduce U.S. gross
- > domestic product (GDP) by about one percent, or $60 billion.
- > However, Cline noted, global warming is cumulative and irreversible
- > and is projected to reach 5.7 degrees C by the year 2100 and 10-18
- > degrees C by 2300. The impact of the latter figure would be a drop
- > of six to 20 percent of GDP.
- >
- >Ignoring the ludicrous 10-18 K warming figure (what _did_ they
- >do to get that? Do a linear extrapolation of 2.5K/50years and add
- >nominal error bars? ) it could be noted that 1% variations in GDP
- >are economic noise, and US growth rates are 2-3% per year long term
- >average. Anyway, isn't the whole problem excess economic growth
- >by the "North"? ;-)
-
- Even more fundamentally, how was that $60 billion derived? Loss of
- seacoast real estate? Was the increased productivity of forestry and
- agriculture from the CO2 fertilization effect taken into account?
-
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