Does Climate Change Affect Economic Growth?
Ross McKitrick … But in recent years a strand of economic literature has argued that warming not only negatively affects the level of economic activity, but also the rate of income growth. This matters because when conducting an analysis over a 100-year time span, small changes in the growth rate can compound over a century […]
Beware of Exaggerated Claims of Climate Harm
Matthew Lau Exaggerated claims about the harms of global warming are the stock-in-trade not only of the Trudeau government and publicly-funded climate institutes in Canada, but of many others in various quarters. … To be fair, many studies do find global warming will reduce GDP. However, claims of very severe economic harm, as in Kiley’s […]
