Living with Global Warming
http://www.ncpa.org/pub/st/st278/
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Living with Global Warming
NCPA Study
by Indur M. Goklany
Should we try to prevent global warming? Or should we use our resources to adapt to the consequences of warming? An argument for the former is that climate change will exacerbate existing problems — specifically, malaria, hunger, water shortage, coastal flooding and threats to biodiversity. This is a particular concern for developing countries, many of which are beset by these problems but lack the economic and human resources needed to obtain and implement technologies that would finesse or cope with them. This paper analyzes costs and benefits of two different approaches. One approach — mitigation — would limit carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere largely by reducing emissions due to human activities. The Kyoto Protocol is an example of this approach. The second approach — adaptation — would reduce society’s vulnerability to, or help cope with, the consequences of global climate change due to higher CO2 emissions.
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Climate Change: What if They're Right?
Submitted on April 16th, 2008 by People Unitehttp://www.fee.org/publications/the-freeman/article.asp?aid=6607
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Climate Change: What if They're Right?
By Max Borders
"... If we keep getting richer, we may find technological measures both for mitigating negative effects of climate change as well as for sequestering greenhouse gases. Until then, very few credible economists argue that we should slow growth or hobble the global economy—assuming, that is, the climate change skeptics are wrong. What we are left with, then, is an ironic symmetry between two sets of consensus: one that says man is warming the earth and one that says we’ll do best simply to adapt."