Links tagged “stern”
- At World Bank Climate Talk, Nicholas Stern Floats End of Conventional Vehicles Sales: Urges ‘clarity on timescales for stopping the sale of internal combustion engine vehicles’
Nicholas Stern, former chief economist for the World Bank from 2000 through 2003: “The right kind of policies have to be put in place, including the abolition of fossil fuel subsidies, the advancement of carbon pricing, but clarity on timescales for decentralization of the grid, clarity on timescales for stopping the sale of internal combustion engine vehicles, and so on—making sure the sense of direction is clear in those ways."
- Warmist Nicholas Stern wins $10k climate hoax communication award – ‘2013 Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communication’
- Warmist Nicholas Stern: The UN IPCC’s report has been prepared by 259 researchers; CO2 might result in ‘population movements of perhaps hundreds of millions’
- Prof. Roger Pielke Jr.: ‘An argument that mitigation of ghgs makes sense in terms of decreasing the future costs of extreme events is not a strong one’
'Even under the assumptions of IPCC, Stern Review, etc. the future costs of extreme events under the most aggressive scenarios of climate change actually decrease as a proportion of GDP'
- UN IPCC Lead Author Richard Tol rips UK’s Lord Stern: ‘Stern is a master communicator. He conned almost everyone into believing he’s an expert in climate economics’
- Skeptics Repent! We are all doomed! Report: More than 100 million people will die by 2030 if world fails to act on climate
Reuters: 'More than 100 million people will die and global economic growth will be cut by 3.2% of GDP by 2030 if the world fails to tackle climate change, a report commissioned by 20 governments said on Wednesday. As global avg. temps rise due to ghg emissions, the effects on planet, such as melting ice caps, extreme weather, drought and rising sea levels, will threaten populations and livelihoods, said the report conducted by humanitarian organisation DARA'
- Key global warming report (Stern Review) was fudged: ‘Voodoo economics’ used to develop public policy on climate change
Analytic look-back at the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change — a 700-page report released for the British government in October 2006...Report What is Wrong with Stern? The Failings of the Stern Review...Stern was, at the time, a government-employed economist who was asked by his government to answer a question which was formulated by government. He gave them the answer they were hoping for'
- Was Stern ‘wrong for the right reasons’ … or just wrong? ‘Should we make ourselves poorer to save the rich of the future some insignificant amount of money…’
'...an amount so small, it will be a rounding error? The argument he builds is that government spending on climate policies is in fact a form of regressive wealth distribution. And the question the minister poses is far from rhetorical; it's at the heart of the climate policy debate'
- UN IPCC’s Richard Tol: ‘Stern made elementary errors, in the economics, in the mathematics, and in the computations’
- Stern review ‘a report on a complex subject written in a short time by a group of novices’ — A kind description!’
