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    Archive for tag: financial post

  • More growth, less warming

    Published on: Sunday, 22 June, 2014

    The only way to get dangerous global warming is to assume stagnation

    Here's a version of the article I published in the Financial Post this week with added links:

    The debate over climate change is horribly polarized. From the way it is conducted, you would think that only two positions are possible: that the whole thing is a hoax or that catastrophe is inevitable. In fact there is room for lots of intermediate positions, including the view I hold, which is that man-made climate change is real but not likely to do much harm, let alone prove to be the greatest crisis facing humankind this century.

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