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Economic sense & nonsense of global warming
BY PETER LÖSCHER - Climate change is a fact. Carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere are higher today than at any point during the last 350,000 years. If carbon dioxide emissions were to double by 2035, the temperature of our planet would rise between 1.5 and 4.5 degrees celsius – with catastrophic consequences for civilization and our entire biosphere. We cannot afford this. -
Climate Change: Global Warming’s Technology Deficit
BY BJØRN LOMBORG - Our current approach to solving global warming will not work. It is flawed economically, because carbon taxes will cost a fortune and do little, and it is flawed politically, because negotiations to reduce CO2 emissions will become ever more fraught and divisive. And even if you disagree on both counts, the current approach is also flawed technologically.
