tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5822805028291837738.post455603188440874019..comments2023-12-09T03:51:33.158-05:00Comments on Various Consequences: Response to 'Economic Case for Slashing Carbon Emissions'Joshua Stultshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03506970399027046387noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5822805028291837738.post-45032311060430025112010-03-16T18:38:17.093-04:002010-03-16T18:38:17.093-04:00Another criticism of the 'Economics of 350'...<a href="http://chriscolose.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/consequences-of-being-over-concerned/" rel="nofollow">Another criticism</a> of the 'Economics of 350'.Joshua Stultshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03506970399027046387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5822805028291837738.post-61594236060831462342010-01-31T08:46:59.388-05:002010-01-31T08:46:59.388-05:00Muir-Wood on misuse of his paper:
The Stern report...<a href="http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com/2010/01/robert-muir-wood-on-stern-report.html" rel="nofollow">Muir-Wood on misuse of his paper</a>:<br /><i>The Stern report, citing Muir-Wood, said: “New analysis based on insurance industry data has shown that weather-related catastrophe losses have increased by 2% each year since the 1970s over and above changes in wealth, inflation and population growth/movement.<br /><br />“If this trend continued or intensified with rising global temperatures, losses from extreme weather could reach 0.5%-1% of world GDP by the middle of the century.”<br /><br /><b>Muir-Wood said his research showed no such thing</b> and accused Stern of “going far beyond what was an acceptable extrapolation of the evidence”.</i>Joshua Stultshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03506970399027046387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5822805028291837738.post-92006469892943819352010-01-24T20:44:02.528-05:002010-01-24T20:44:02.528-05:00Another problem with the Stern Review's climat...Another problem with the Stern Review's climate change cost estimates emerges:<br /><i><br />In fact as much as 40% of the Stern Reivew projections for the global costs of unmitigated climate change derive from its misuse of the Muir-Wood et al. paper.<br /><a href="http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com/2010/01/what-tangled-web-we-weave.html" rel="nofollow">--Roger Pielke, What a Tangled Web We Weave</a></i>Joshua Stultshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03506970399027046387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5822805028291837738.post-1606386900713506022009-10-24T11:56:08.946-04:002009-10-24T11:56:08.946-04:00Interesting article by Nathan Myhrvold that touche...<a href="http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/20/are-solar-panels-really-black-and-what-does-that-have-to-do-with-the-climate-debate/" rel="nofollow">Interesting article by Nathan Myhrvold</a> that touches on the silliness of so much of the hysterics around climate science.Joshua Stultshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03506970399027046387noreply@blogger.com