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Dealing with warming: an appeal to reason.(2007 ENERGY)(carbon emissions)
IF you believe that human emissions of carbon dioxide create a significant risk of negative climate change, the solution seems obvious: reduce emissions. But this conventional wisdom is exactly wrong.
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)--which recently, together with Al Gore, won the Nobel Peace Prize--projects that, under fairly reasonable assumptions for world population and economic growth, global temperatures will rise by 2.8[degrees]C by the year 2100, and that this will begin to create costs equal to 1 to 5 percent of global GDP sometime in the 22nd century. So, it is argued, we should begin, right now, to reduce emissions of ...
- Stern review could boost green funds, says TrustNet.
- Magazine article from: Financial Adviser November 9, 2006 700+ words
...government-commissioned report on global warming. The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate...report into the effects of global warming. "Many people may want to...for free on Trustnet." The Stern Review found that the costs of action...
- Global-warming alarmists try to freeze out skeptics.
- Magazine article from: The New American Hoar, William P. January 22, 2007 700+ words
...in efforts to combat global warming." ITEM: BBC News reported...Nicholas Stern suggests that global warming could shrink the global...Tony Blair said the Stern Review showed that scientific evidence of global warming was 'overwhelming...
- Wesleyan Spotlights Global Warming.
- Newspaper article from: Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT) November 10, 2006 700+ words
...are a primary cause of global warming. A British government...the last century. The Stern Review details the potential impact of global warming on the world economy...than doing nothing. The Stern Review might help steer the discussion...
- The UK Treasury Committee has called for the creation of a new ministerial post...
- Magazine article from: Chemistry and Industry February 11, 2008 700+ words
...for the creation of a new ministerial post to coordinate the fight against global warming. The committee's recommendation was made in response to the Stern review report on the economics of climate change. A new department, the Office for...
- Comrade chicken little: the British government's Stern Review makes the case...
- Magazine article from: Western Standard Stuart, Matthew December 4, 2006 700+ words
...of economics. The Stern Review, released in October...into the review--if global warming takes an unexpectedly...Immediately after the Stern Review's release, Britain...climate is not what the Stern Review actually provided...
- Stern review economics claims need to be examined.
- Magazine article from: Fund Strategy November 6, 2006 700+ words
Despite the massive coverage of the Stern review* on the economics of climate change, many of its key arguments...the report also sees a role for adaptation in coping with global warming. Such measures could include building modern flood defences...
- A critique of the stern report: is there a case for aggressive, near-term...
- Magazine article from: Regulation Mendelsohn, Robert O. December 22, 2006 700+ words
...programs are warranted in the near term. The recently released Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, better known as the...2[degrees]C-3[degrees]C and effectively ending global warming as a problem as early as the year 2050. Best of all, it...
- Global health threats: global warming in perspective.(Report)
- Magazine article from: Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons Goklany, Indur M. September 22, 2009 700+ words
...the global impacts of global warming. (9,10) The FTAs...Health Organization to global warming in 2000 was derived...commissioned for the Stern Review, "changes in socioeconomic...is synonymous with "global warming." For the sake of...
