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Every six years or so, the IPCC gathers the best information we have on climate change models and climate effects. In its “standard” future scenario, the IPCC predicts that the global temperature in 2100 will have risen on average 4.7°F from the current range.
Lomborg, Bjorn (2007-09-11). Cool It (Kindle Locations 322-324). Random House, Inc.. Kindle Edition.
Yet Kyoto matters little for the climate. Even if all countries had ratified it (the United States and Australia did not), and all countries lived up to their commitments (which many will have a hard time doing) and stuck to them throughout the twenty-first century (which would get ever harder), the change would have been minuscule. The temperature by 2050 would be an immeasurable 0.1°F lower and even by 2100 only 0.3°F lower. This means that the expected temperature increase of 4.7°F would be postponed just five years, from 2100 to 2105.
Lomborg, Bjorn (2007-09-11). Cool It (Kindle Locations 477-481). Random House, Inc.. Kindle Edition.
UN’s most likely scenario for 2100, when many of warming’s problems will be felt in earnest, the average person in the developing world is expected to make about one hundred thousand dollars (in present value) each year. Even the very worst-case scenario envisions the average person making above $27,000.
Lomborg, Bjorn (2007-09-11). Cool It (Kindle Locations 842-844). Random House, Inc.. Kindle Edition.
In its 2007 report, the UN estimates that sea levels will rise about a foot over the rest of the century. While this is not a trivial amount, it is also important to realize that it is certainly not outside historical experience. Since 1860, we have experienced a sea-level rise of about a foot, yet this has clearly not caused major disruptions. It is also important to realize that the new prediction is lower than the previous IPCC estimates and much lower than the expectations from the 1990s of more than two feet and from the 1980s, when the Environmental Protection Agency projected more than six feet.
Lomborg, Bjorn (2007-09-11). Cool It (Kindle Locations 1016-1021). Random House, Inc.. Kindle Edition.
However, such a future would also be a less rich one—the IPCC expects the average person in the standard future to make $72,700 in the 2080s, whereas a person in a more environmentally oriented (but less growth oriented) world would make only $50,600.
Lomborg, Bjorn (2007-09-11). Cool It (Kindle Locations 1145-1147). Random House, Inc.. Kindle Edition.
For more than 180 of the world’s 192 nations, coastal protection will cost less than 0.1 percent of their GDP and approach total protection.
Lomborg, Bjorn (2007-09-11). Cool It (Kindle Locations 1151-1152). Random House, Inc.. Kindle Edition.
How to reduce / reverse coastal erosion
Methods Used to Slow Down Coastal Erosion: http://youtu.be/nujYG_b8lI8
outcome. TABLE 2 The annual cost and efficiency of enacting Kyoto versus a collection of smart strategies (costs in parentheses).
Lomborg, Bjorn (2007-09-11). Cool It (Kindle Locations 2472-2475). Random House, Inc.. Kindle Edition.
The most attractive technology Bickel and Lane examine appears to be marine cloud whitening, a process in which boats spray seawater droplets into clouds to make them whiter and thus reflect more sunlight back into space. This would augment the natural process whereby sea salt from the ocean is whipped up and provides cloud condensation nuclei. Marine cloud whitening would not lead to permanent atmospheric changes, and could be used only when needed. The researchers conclude, remarkably, that a fleet of 1,900 unmanned ships spraying seawater mist into the air, at a total cost of about $6 billion, might be able to cancel out the entire warming of this century. When the benefits from averted warming are calculated, this is the equivalent of avoiding more than $2,000 of climat
