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“Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.”3”
― Introduction to Modern Climate Change
― Introduction to Modern Climate Change
“This is summed nicely up by Vaclav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic (and one of the very few leaders of any country to doubt the mainstream view of the science of climate change): “The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy, and prosperity at the end of the twentieth and at the beginning of the twenty-first century is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism.”
― Introduction to Modern Climate Change
― Introduction to Modern Climate Change
“In fact, the world's rich countries are rich because of the energy they consumed – and the emissions that resulted. Thus, it makes sense for them to have a greater responsibility for taking the first steps toward cleaning up the problem.”
― Introduction to Modern Climate Change
― Introduction to Modern Climate Change
“Only a few components of our atmosphere are greenhouse gases, which absorb infrared photons. The three most important are (in order) water vapor, carbon dioxide, and methane. Nitrogen, oxygen, and argon, which make up approximately 99.9% of the dry atmosphere, are not greenhouse gases. • The carbon cycle describes how carbon cycles through its primary reservoirs: the atmosphere (containing 100 GtC), land biosphere (2,000 GtC), ocean (1,000 GtC in”
― Introduction to Modern Climate Change
― Introduction to Modern Climate Change
