Major study on catastrophic cost of climate change retracted - but revised figures remain alarming
The study originally predicted that climate change would trigger a decrease in global income of 19 per cent by 2050. Revised analysis now puts the figure at 17 per cent.
Authors of the study also found that there was a 99 per cent chance that by midcentury it would cost more to fix damage from climate change than it would to build resilience. However, the new analysis, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, lowered that figure to 91 per cent.
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves seem to be well on track to reduce UK incomes by 19 per cent much earlier than 2050. A substantial UK overshoot seems more likely by 2050, or would that be a substantial undershoot?
If Net Zero were to be achieved (ha ha) then the Powers That Be would press the rest of us to achieve Minus Net Zero. In other words Twaddle(-1).
ReplyDeleteI only wish I was joking.
Anon - to do that we'd have to suck in CO2 instead of breathing it out so we'd all be suckers... Oh...
ReplyDeleteSoT, apparently Ed Minibrain threw a wobbly recently, when someone pointed out that it takes more energy to manufacture and site each and every one of his bird mincers, than it will produce in it's lifetime, adding the fact that when it stops working, for whatever reason, none of it can be recycled.
ReplyDeleteHe has got to be controlled by a third party. Shirley, not even he can be that stupid, can he?
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Penseivat - Ed Minibrain isn't easy to work out. His behaviour says he is stupid or controlled by a third party, but in itself doesn't tell us which. Maybe the balanced conclusion is that he is both, stupid enough to be controlled by a third party.
ReplyDeleteWeird Ed? Mad as a hatter. Can't even out-wrestle a bacon sandwich.
ReplyDeleteIf we were a Red Indian he'd be known as "Ed Three-Kitchens". And that's just in his 'first home'.
dearieme - a consensus does seem to be emerging around "Mad Ed" or "Mad Miliband". As a parting shot, Rachel from Accounts could tax extra kitchens as a 'green' addition to her mansion tax.
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