Climate of fear [electronic resource] : why we shouldn't worry about global warming / Thomas Gale Moore.

By:

Moore, Thomas Gale

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Washington, D.C. : Cato Institute, c1998 (2000 printing)Description: 1 online resource (175 p.) : illISBN:

9781935308010 (electronic bk.)
1935308017 (electronic bk.)

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Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Climate of fear.DDC classification:

363.738/74 22

LOC classification:

QC981.8.G56 M64 1998eb

Online resources:

EBSCOhost

Contents:

The science behind predictions of climate change -- Historical evidence on climate and human well-being -- The health effects of global warming -- Weather benefits and other environmental amenities -- The economic costs (benefits?) of a warmer world -- Slowing greenhouse gas emissions : politics and costs.

Summary: "Demonstrates that increased carbon dioxide emissions, coupled with warmer autumns and winters, would boost agricultural production, reduce heating costs, improve transportation, and cut fatalities ... The costs of curbing greenhouse gas emissions would far exceed even the most pessimistic estimates from losses from climate change."--Jacket.

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"Second printing"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-167) and index.

"Demonstrates that increased carbon dioxide emissions, coupled with warmer autumns and winters, would boost agricultural production, reduce heating costs, improve transportation, and cut fatalities ... The costs of curbing greenhouse gas emissions would far exceed even the most pessimistic estimates from losses from climate change."--Jacket.

Description based on print version record.