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Economist William Nordhaus mocked over climate economics
Original: New gender-neutral toilet just opened! William Nordhaus, the Novel prize-winning economist who gave us such economics hi
William Nordhaus, the Nobel prize-winning economist known for his work on the economics of climate change, is being ridiculed online for past arguments, including claims that agriculture matters little since most GDP is produced indoors and that New York could adapt if it acquired the climate of New Orleans. Critics say his cost-benefit approach to climate policy understated the dangers of warming.
Why now: Critics are renewing criticism of Nordhaus's climate economics as insufficiently alarmist about global warming
William NordhausNobel PrizeNew YorkNew Orleans
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- New gender-neutral toilet just opened! William Nordhaus, the Novel prize-winning economist who gave us such economics hits as "Agriculture doesn't matter much since most GDP production takes place indoors" and "if New York suddenly acquires the climate of New Orleans then New… · SallyStrange@eldritch.cafe · 30
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