Links tagged “stern”

Flashback: Nicholas Stern: The IPCC's report has been prepared by 259 researchers; CO2 might result in "population movements of perhaps hundreds of millions"

Flashback: Nicholas Stern suggests that trace amounts of CO2 may cause the oceans to rise 65 feet

Flashback Jan 2013: He don't need no stinkin' thermometers: After no warming for a decade, chair of warmist research institute claims that "Some of the effects are coming through more quickly than we thought [in 2006]"

'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'

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'

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'

'...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'

'Stern died academic death within weeks after publication, but lives on politically'