Climate Change Calls for Adaptation, Not Panic - WSJ--Bjorn Lomborg

Climate Change Calls for Adaptation, Not Panic - WSJ

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  Catastrophic scenarios presuppose people will do nothing to adjust to differences in the weather.--By Bjorn Lomborg

"It’s easy to construct climate disasters. 

You just find a current, disconcerting trend and project it into the future, while ignoring everything humanity could do to adapt. 

For instance, one widely reported study found that heat waves could kill thousands more Americans by the end of the century if global warming continues apace—but only if you assume people won’t use more air conditioning. 

Yes, the climate is likely to change, but so is human behavior in response.
Adaptation doesn’t make the cost of global warming go away entirely, but it does reduce it dramatically...Read all!