Stern Remarks on Global Warming
From the UK comes the sweeping, 700 page Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change. Though this is an economic forecast, it contains quite a lot of climate science as well. You can read an AP report on the review here and find the review itself, along with the press release and some other materials here.
I will make no guarantee that I will slog through the full 700 page report, but I have found some interesting commentary on the review by people who have read it. I'll point you to a couple of entries at Prometheus: The Science Policy Weblog, specifically the entries from October 29, 30 and 31. Richard Tol's comment (downloadable as a Word document) is particularly critical of the conclusions of the Stern Review.
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Comments (6)
That's a big report!
Posted by Carl | October 31, 2006 3:45 PM
so you couldn't be bothered to read it, but instead point us to another blog.
Gee I can see this blog is going to get a ton hits!
Heckuva job, Laura!
Posted by scott szycher | November 3, 2006 5:08 PM
Scott,
Thank you for your comment. I made an assumption that I should not have made when I posted this entry. That is, that people would realize that the Stern Review was not presenting anything NEW in climate science. It is a report on economics, which lays a foundation of climate science primarly based on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2001 report.
Since I am not an economist, I am not really qualified to comment on the remainder of Stern. However, the link I provided to Prometheus features comments by economists whose work was cited in Stern. Hopefully my readers see the value in that.
Again, thanks for your comment. Hopefully you've made me a better blogger!
Posted by Laura Hannon | November 6, 2006 12:01 PM
That link,
Does not work!
Posted by Sarah | January 5, 2007 11:14 PM
Sarah - sometimes links disappear after a few months. The report is still available at the second link, if you're interested.
Posted by Laura Hannon | January 6, 2007 8:43 AM
The Report is written with so many hedges and assumptions; it should be labeled as fiction.
NOBODY can predict the economic consequences of these many different scenarios out to 100 years, much less the drivel this report proclaims. This is a plethera of social justice ideas and feel good remedies.
Think of all those trees the 700 pages killed when they could have been sequestering CO2.
I now know how cults get their members. So many people, so few with the ability to think for themselves.
Posted by ted | July 31, 2007 1:20 PM