Economist Brent Boehlert and his colleagues at MIT have issued a new report showing that curbing carbon emissions would represent a huge benefit for agriculture and the nation as a whole by reducing the frequency and severity of future crop-parching droughts and saving American farmers billions of dollars annually by 2100. The study is found in the July issue of Weather, Climate and Society. The study is interesting because the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change has been focused on the hard science side of academia. This is a group of economists who are adding an economic analysis supporting emission curbs.
The study estimates that large-scale climate action would save farmers about $980 million annually by 2050 while more modest cuts would net savings of around $390 million annually. The two scenarios would keep atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations below 500 and 600 parts per million, respectively, compared with 1,750 ppm without mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions.
Droughts currently cost the United States between $6 billion and $8 billion a year. They are expected to grow worse in the absence of aggressive climate change action, particularly in other countries. The study found an overall benefit of $2.2 billion a year to U.S. agriculture from aggressive carbon emission reductions.
Source: Science News
Obviously Darren has not read the emails. If he has, and still takes his stance, well he was not an investigator worth a damn.
pin,
Jews don’t need to worry about the stars and moons…
… They have ‘Promised’ land here on Earth. No?
Max-1
God promised Abraham as many descendants as there are stars in the sky.
Muslims went into astronomy to see how many more Jews they have to kill.
Hey Paul C,
Please multitask a reply to the Pluto and Hayabusa question?
But seriously, amazing stuff these scientists do…
Paul C
Good. Then you know that scientists prefer to have their work checked, then double checked, and finally confirmed through sometimes, other rounds of proofing of their work. That is what the e-mails are about; Their work. It shouldn’t be an issue for the general public to know that real scientists prefer to be confirmed as correct…
Say, remember when you ‘had to show your work’?
Max-1 – did you read all the emails? I did. Their emails were how to keep their data from other scientists, how to privatize it. How to ice out people who dissented with them.
The various panels put together to exam the data have never been able to exam the data itself. Since you agree that part of science is having other replicate your work, why have they never released the original data. Not only have they not released it, they have gone to court to protect it. Personally, that makes me wonder what they have to hide.
Paul
So emails about climate data are more secure than the secretary of hate’s?
pinandpuller – those climate emails got hacked 3 times. 🙂
An example of “Bad Science”
A refrigerator that is left open doesn’t stay cool, long.
However, some call that a natural cycle…
… And in normal homes it’s just the kids.
Max-1
Obviously Nazis and muslims are infatuated by the moon and Pluto because: no Jews.
From 5 years ago…
Paul C
“I went to grad school and I know scientists.”
= = =
So that explains a lot…
Max-1 – I am multi-tasking, That should have read I know how scientists work.
Paul C
So you’re saying that Nazi scientists of the ’40’s just got a close up drive by pic of Pluto in 2015?
Oh, and please do explain how this same group of ’40’s Nazi scientists assisted the Japanese (o.k. allies, I’m making it easy for you) to land a probe on a real asteroid? I mean, these Nazi scientists must have the scientific secret to longevity, alright, YES?
go on… do tell…
Max-1 – Pluto and Jupiter people were trained by the Nazi scientist.
pin
“And as to muslim scholars calling for islam to fight global warming-is there anything muslims won’t fight FFS?”
= = =
American police… Nobody stands a living chance against that gang of thugs.
Max-1
Most of the cops down here in TN kiss muslim ass until the odd Kuwaiti-American shoots up a recruiting center.
And I’ll be on the record for saying that Obama’s stance on his climate policy is hypocritical…
… If it wasn’t for the fossil fuel industry pumping these toxins into our atmosphere, the Arctic wouldn’t be melting to the point where Shell can be given permission by the Obama Administration to go and drill for more of that toxin.
In short:
IF Obama believed in himself and his policies, he would have told Shell to go screw itself… IF!
However, I’m sure there were competing ‘intere$t$’ that won him over.
Hey Paul C.
http://www.skepticalscience.com/Climategate-CRU-emails-hacked.htm
Now, when will you move on from 2011?
Paul C is still stuck on scientists e-mailing each other about their findings… the shock that they might compare notes. Scandalous… One scientists e-mails the other, “I got 1+1=2” and so Paul C cries, CONSPIRACY!
Max-1 – they will not release all the data so others can replicate their work. I went to grad school and I know scientists. I am glad they are emailing each other. However, when they are stopping the work of others and closing them out from publication they drop to the bottom of my humanity pile. You have to read ALL the emails, not just some.
There is a lot of good science out there, but there is a lot of bad science out there.
When Rome burns, the GOP deny that there’s even smoke…
… However, feel that Bern this election.
Darren
“Who has more credibility?”
= = =
Depends on who you donate your money to…
It has been my observation that the sources of climate change confirming data mostly derive from scientists. The opposition data to this mostly from politicians and the largest polluters.
Who has more credibility?
Darren – the emails showed that the skeptics were frozen out of the peer reviewed journals and then when people would ask about their work the freezers would say that you needed to be in a peer reviewed journal. Michael Mann has hidden his work as proprietary and won a suit protecting it as such to protect it from examination. Many of the scientists that are on board for climate change are not climate scientists. NOAA has been caught fudging the numbers on temperatures over the last couple of years.
Paul C
Explain Mars and Pluto?
German Nazi’s too???
Paul C
I swear, I just give you a shovel and you dig…