Statistician: UN climate treaty will cost $100 trillion – To Have No Impact

By Marc Morano —— Bio and Archives January 18, 2017

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Danish statistician Dr. Bjorn Lomborg, the President of the Copenhagen Consensus Center: 'We will spend at least one hundred trillion dollars in order to reduce the temperature by the end of the century by a grand total of three tenths of one degree...the equivalent of postponing warming by less than four years...Again, that is using the UN's own climate prediction model.' 'If the U.S. delivers for the whole century on the President Obama's very ambitious rhetoric, it would postpone global warming by about eight months at the end of the century.'

'But here is the biggest problem: These miniscule benefits do not come free -- quite the contrary. The cost of the UN Paris climate pact is likely to run 1 to 2 trillion dollars every year.' Danish statistician Dr. Bjorn Lomborg, the President of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, has come out denouncing the UN climate Paris agreement as a massive waste of money that will do nothing to impact climate change. In a January 16, 2017 Prager U video titled, “The Paris Climate Agreement Won’t Change the Climate,” Lomborg explains that “the agreement will cost a fortune, but do little to reduce global warming.” (Full transcript here) ‘Exactly how much will this treaty reduce global temperatures?’ ‘The UN agreement will cost a fortune, but do little to reduce global warming.’ Lomborg ridiculed the UN Paris agreement supporters as making “grand pronouncements and vague specifics.” More...

The Paris Climate Agreement Won’t Change the Climate