Posted on 11/29/2018 6:37:01 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
A report out of the University of Alaska Anchorage estimates some of the most certain consequences of climate change in Alaska will cost the state between $340 and $700 million per year over the next three to five decades.
Thats a significant, but relatively modest net economic effect for Alaska as a whole, the report notes.
But co-author Matthew Berman, a professor of economics at UAAs Institute of Social and Economic Research, said the dollar figures dont capture the large disparity between climate changes cost to urban and rural Alaska.
But Berman cautioned that the amount the report predicts climate change will cost the state is almost certainly an underestimate. The report is a review of available scientific publications on the issue, and it didnt tally other potentially expensive impacts because not enough is known to put a dollar figure to them.
Even though we dont know what the consequences are, it could be fairly substantial, Berman said. In a sense this is a massive uncontrolled experiment on peoples livelihoods. We really dont know what is going to happen.
Findings from the report were included in the National Climate Assessment released last week.
(Excerpt) Read more at ktoo.org ...
...and climate change “remedies” will cost billions.
As for global warming, “the left has sequestered the environmental cause and perverted it to the point of paroxysm over the last 20 years with the ideology of climate change!” he wrote. The climate scientists “gathered some data suggesting a correlation of rising temperatures with increasing concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere, but ignored data suggesting the opposite, and created a ‘scientific’ dogma that no one else can challenge on pain of being excommunicated from good society. This is just the opposite of the scientific spirit.”
Brazil’s New Top Diplomat: Climate Change is a Marxist Hoax!
By Michael W. Chapman | November 28, 2018 | 3:23 PM EST
https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/michael-w-chapman/brazils-new-top-diplomat-climate-change-marxist-hoax
Economists love to work with assumptions. To please their sources of funding, they will make assumptions like, for example, the earth is warming and the warming is directly caused by mankind. This appears to be a bad assumption.
The Earth is cooling. Climate change is caused by the Sun. We are on the cusp of a global cooling period caused by the Sun.
Isn’t it easier to drill in warm weather?
What a load of pure crap!
Wind pushed the ice somewhere else?
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