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Does Climate Science Really Compel Us Toward Urgent Action?

The Soho Forum Debates

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The Problem With Climate Change Is Irreversible

The impact globally of extreme weather events from 1990 up to 2020, 30 years. And what you see is that it's a few tenths of a percent of GDP globally. So the notion that climate change today is costing us a tremendous amount of money is just not borne out by the statistics and the peer reviewed literature. Global average mortality and economic loss rates have dropped by six and a half and nearly five times from 1980 to more or less the present. With renewable energy, we can just stop doing it. If he's wrong, we're cooked.

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