Ask a Global Warming Skeptic

[peter grimes]

Here's one aspect of the cost issue that I rarely hear:
How is the mitigation money spent?
Specifically, I can easily envision how mitigation measures wind up spurring certain businesses. If dykes and canals need mitigation, then clearly some marine engineering firms are going to get a lot of new business. I'm sure there are plenty of other industries that would benefit from mitigation measures.

So I'm not sure it's correct to think of mitigation costs as being money spent and gone forever. Someone somewhere has to do the work, and that means jobs.

 

[Arwon]

Some of this is actually fairly low hanging fruit - stationary energy for example is purely a matter of political will to spend on the new build on lower emissions fuels for electricity generation. And remember we're just trying to bring down emissions, not eliminate them all completely.

 

[Leoreth]

Would be good to have that chart weighted for the actual contribution to global warming.

 

[Arwon]

The sectoral chart is all in CO2-e, already weighted by global warming potential.