Climate change impacts in Canada will cost huge amounts of money, as predicted in the Stern report, Economics of Climate Change. Who will pay for them? Click adaptation-and-law for a copy of our presentation to the Institute of Public Affairs of Canada this week.
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The presentation was very compelling. I wish there had been time to elaborate some of the things that had to be skimmed over.
Why should anyone pay for them? Global warming is not caused by humans. The Earth is coming out of an ice age. See the Phanerozoic CO2 levels for the earth on the link below. We are at a low point for the past 500 million years.
“Even if carbon emissions were to completely cease, atmospheric temperatures are not expected to decrease significantly.” (multiple references): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_flux#cite_not…
Martin,
I think the weight of the science is strongly against you on this one.
Dianne