By: M
“much less one half as large as today’s” Technically, that would be “one half as large as the business as usual case in 2100″, I believe, and given that BAU usually has much more than doubling of GDP...
View ArticleBy: Alas, a blog » Blog Archive » Open Thread & Link Farm, Baleful Stare Edition
[...] climate change and what should be done about it. Manzi begins, then Plumer, then Manzi again, then Things Break, and finally Plumer [...]
View ArticleBy: Alex
“Notoriously, DICE shows a warming of 20°C resulting in a loss of only 50% of global GDP” Sorry about bringing this up after so long, but is there a source for this claim? I can’t seem to find any...
View ArticleBy: thingsbreak
I don’t know that it’s been explicitly stated in a journal article or similar. It was a criticism that has been made by several different prominent economists, and acknowledged by Nordhaus. I believe...
View ArticleBy: Deliberate Anarchy As Climate Governance « Conflated Automatons
[...] are technical problems with Manzi’s argument: scenario choice is highly selective, and GDP is a lousy basis for century scale prediction. That latter post also suggests in an [...]
View Article
