Climate of Fear: Why We Shouldn't Worry about Global WarmingCato Institute, 1998 - 175 sidor Conventional wisdom says that global warming is a serious problem. And many people believe the answer to that problem is stringent government regulation - regulation that would lower productivity and standards of living around the world. In Climate of Fear: Why We Shouldn't Worry about Global Warming, Thomas Gale Moore argues that in this case, as in so many others, conventional wisdom is wrong. If global warming were to occur, it would not be the disaster that many doomsayers have predicted. Instead, most people would actually benefit from the slightly higher temperatures it would produce. |
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THE HEALTH EFFECTS OF GLOBAL WARMING | 69 |
WEATHER BENEFITS AND OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL AMENITIES | 89 |
THE ECONOMIC COSTS BENEFITS? OF A WARMER WORLD | 103 |
SLOWING GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS POLITICS AND COSTS | 129 |
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Sida 5 - Convention, stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.
Sida 1 - The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
Sida 9 - Nevertheless, the balance of evidence suggests that there is a discernible human influence on global climate.
Sida 13 - IPCC scenario (IS92e) combined with a "high" value of climate sensitivity gives a warming of about 3.5°C. In all cases the average rate of warming would probably be greater than any seen in the last 10,000 years, but the actual annual to decadal changes would include considerable natural variability. Regional temperature changes could differ substantially from the global mean value. Because of the thermal inertia of the oceans, only 50-90% of the eventual equilibrium temperature change would...
Sida 23 - Climate extremes would trigger meteorological chaos— raging hurricanes such as we have never seen, capable of killing millions of people; uncommonly long, record-breaking heat waves; and profound drought that could drive Africa and the entire Indian subcontinent over the edge into mass starvation."4 "From sweltering heat to rising sea levels, global warming's effects have already begun.
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