Does Climate Science Really Compel Us Toward Urgent Action?
The Soho Forum Debates
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Climate Change
I think if you look at the literature, there is 100% agreement that the net impact is going to be bad. In fact, Dr. Kuhn and said that in his talk, he said the loss of GDP in 2100 will only be 2% or something. I mean, losing GDP is still bad. And that's widely agreed upon. So everybody agrees. The question is how risk averse are. If I tell you there's a 50% chance, if you jump out of a plane, your parachute's going to fail, you could say, well, 50% is bad, but 50%, it's good. It's the very tail of the distribution that really motivates
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