Tuesday, October 09, 2018

The earth is warming faster than anticipated

The earth is warming faster than anticipated,

 Here’s what you need to know:

Worsening food shortages. More wildfires. Flooded coastlines.

These are among the dire predictions for the next 25 years in a report by the U.N.’s scientific panel on climate change.

Australia’s many reefs are particularly at risk.

Avoiding the most serious damage would require transforming the world economy within just a few years, said the authors, who acknowledged the rescue was politically unlikely.

On the same day, the Nobel in economics went to to a pair of Americans for their work highlighting the importance of government policy in fostering sustainable economic growth. 

One, William D. Nordhaus, was an early advocate for a carbon tax.

The other, Paul M. Romer, studies technological innovation.

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