That's because they are fanatics. Extremists. All they want is to feel good. Tangible results are not needed or required.
https://nypost.com/2025/01/19/opini...upt-the-entire-world-for-little-to-no-reward/
Across the world, public finances are stretched dangerously thin. Per-person growth continues dropping while costs are climbing for pensions, education, health care and defense.
These urgent priorities could easily require an additional 3%-6% of GDP. Yet green campaigners are loudly calling for governments to spend up to 25% of our GDP, choking growth in the name of climate change.
If climate Armageddon were imminent, they would have a point. The truth is far more prosaic.
Two major new scientific estimates of the total global cost of climate change have been published recently.
These are not individual studies, which can vary greatly (with the costliest studies getting copious press coverage). Instead, they are meta-studies based on the entirety of the peer-reviewed literature.
One is authored by one of the most cited climate economists, Richard Tol; the other is by the only climate economist to win the Nobel prize, William Nordhaus.
https://nypost.com/2025/01/19/opini...upt-the-entire-world-for-little-to-no-reward/
Across the world, public finances are stretched dangerously thin. Per-person growth continues dropping while costs are climbing for pensions, education, health care and defense.
These urgent priorities could easily require an additional 3%-6% of GDP. Yet green campaigners are loudly calling for governments to spend up to 25% of our GDP, choking growth in the name of climate change.
If climate Armageddon were imminent, they would have a point. The truth is far more prosaic.
Two major new scientific estimates of the total global cost of climate change have been published recently.
These are not individual studies, which can vary greatly (with the costliest studies getting copious press coverage). Instead, they are meta-studies based on the entirety of the peer-reviewed literature.
One is authored by one of the most cited climate economists, Richard Tol; the other is by the only climate economist to win the Nobel prize, William Nordhaus.
