228. Steven Koonin on what climate science tells us, what it doesn’t, and why it matters, based on his book Unsettled
The Michael Shermer Show
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Climate Change
The last i pc c report was a most recent one that weighed in on this issue. Itwas already some years ago, six or seven years ago, said that climate change is only one factor that weighs in on economic well being. A few degrees of warming is a few % impact at the end of the century. And if the economy is growing at two percent, as people expect for both us and the world, then four % impact is two years of growth. Economy quadrupling 70 years from now, going from present 20 million to 80 million, it would be something like 76 soe billion, 76 billion instead of 80 billion. So it's in the noise.
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