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195 sats \ 2 replies \ @SimpleStacker 8 Dec \ on: Top Journal Retracts Study Predicting Catastrophic Economic Climate Toll econ
As one remedy, some researchers recommend not trying to do so much in the first place. Noah Kaufman, a senior research scholar at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy who worked in the Biden White House, believes studying specific questions — like how to decarbonize while keeping electricity affordable — is more useful than projecting macroeconomic impacts decades down the road.
The problem: nuanced solutions don't sell as much in the press and amongst the political class compared to climate hysteria. And it's safe to say that the press and the politicians are among the economists' top consumers. How many careers have been built on stoking the climate hysteria flames?
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 8 Dec
The even bigger problem is that these are solutions in search of problems.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 9 Dec
The climate change denial coming from USA today is only hastening its decline in relation to the rest of the world. USAs energy policies are a tragic throwback to the 1950s- a symptom of a dying empire in complete denial about the reality of climate change and the already available solutions that USA is ignoring...leaving China to gain a massive lead in nuclear, hydro, solar and wind generation...
USA cannot build anything of substance anymore- certainly not in a competitive way compared to China- look at tghe tragic attempt by USA to build new nuclear generation compared to Chinas amazing success where they are building multiple new nuclear generators at 1/6th the cost USA is paying. 1/6th!
Chinese businesses and consumers pay less than 1/2 what other industrialised world consumers and businesses pay and the electrification of transport including bullet trains and heavy trucks is rapidly eliminating urban smog. EVs adoption gives China yet another huge advantage over the crony capitalist climate change denying USA.
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