tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12339127.post5185809408672361784..comments2024-01-13T01:17:55.325-06:00Comments on Tom Nelson: Warmist Robert Socolow laments: "We are losing the argument with the general public, big time...I think the climate change activists, myself included, have lost the American middle"Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08119241500221931600noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12339127.post-49036198636023862142011-09-28T13:43:48.620-05:002011-09-28T13:43:48.620-05:00Just read through the NYTimes article with Socolow...Just read through the NYTimes article with Socolow and I noticed this excerpt which seems to say that without a technological revolution, the real cost to GDP will possibly be a magnitude or more greater than the 1 to 2 % of GDP cost that has been mentioned:<br /><br />"I also think that you found the Achilles heel in David’s discussion: his suggestion [of a cost of] 1 to 2 percent of GDP for making deep cuts in global emissions. The 1 or 2 percent is only (remotely) plausible if there is a thorough-going technological revolution–one that allows huge scale-ups of carbon-free technologies at low cost. Without such a revolution the costs of deep cuts in global emissions will be prohibitive, possibly an order of magnitude greater."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com