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40 sats \ 3 replies \ @denlillaapan OP 6 May \ parent \ on: The Economics of Carbon Taxes, Canada Edition (FT, Simon Mundy) econ
Ouuuwwh, feisty.
You mean in terms of greening of the world, or fewer people dying fr heat than cold...?
Both, and more. Bob Murphy walks through this, using the IPCC's own numbers and models. Obviously, there are plenty of credible climate scientists who are skeptical of those.
Even for the "consensus", whether CO2 should be treated as a good or a bad depends on the discount rate in the model. That's because their own models have CO2 being a net benefit for the next few hundred years. It only is a problem now, because they think it will become a problem in the far distant future, if we stay on our recent emission trend.
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right.... the optimal temperature/Nordhaus projection argument.
I haven't heard this mechanical "net benefit" thing...?
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This isn't exactly what I was thinking of, but it seems to hit most of the same points.
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