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- From: burris@epcot.spdc.ti.com (Jim Burris)
- Subject: Re: --Warming Threat to Economy
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.153255.9862@spdc.ti.com>
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- References: <1466601760@igc.apc.org> <STEINLY.92Sep10140417@topaz.ucsc.edu> <1992Sep11.094843.20185@techbook.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 15:32:55 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep11.094843.20185@techbook.com> szabo@techbook.com (Nick Szabo) writes:
- >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:
- >>
- >>
- >>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?
- >
- How much will agricultural and forestry productivity increase from CO2
- "fertilization"? It seems from info previously posted in sci.environment that
- many plants cannot use the extra CO2 to their advantage.
-
- >
- >--
- >szabo@techbook.COM Tuesday, November third ## Libertarian $$ vote
- >Tuesday ^^ Libertarian -- change ** choice && November 3rd @@Libertarian
-
- Jim Burris
-