William Nordhaus famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Sensible policies on global warming should weight the costs of slowing climate change against the benefits of slower climate change. Ironically, recent policy initiatives, such as the Kyoto Protocol of 1997, have been introduced without any attempt to link the emissions controls with the benefits of the lower emissions.
-- William Nordhaus

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Attempts to estimate the impacts of climate change continue to be highly speculative.
-- William Nordhaus

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The strategy behind the Kyoto Protocol has no grounding in economics or environmental policy.
-- William Nordhaus

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An economist is a scoundrel who tells you the way things are rather than the way you want them to be.
-- William Nordhaus

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Gabrielle was insulted and didn't even bother to hide it. 'Oh, and I suppose you think your dad was alone when he free-climbed the Kyoto Banking Tower on a windy day last September.
The total efforts of the last 20 years of climate policy has likely reduced global emissions by less than 1 percent, or about 250 million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year.
In reality, Kyoto was a huge transfer of resources from the United States to the Third World, under the guise of environmental protection.
The challenge now is to renovate the baroque structure that the Kyoto Plan has becomeâ€”or else scrap it and get ready to start all over.
I would say that kids are great in many ways, because I think that we are less hampered when it comes to 'this costs too much' or 'that's impossible'.
There are two types of films - one made by the big-time producers, the other is low budget stuff made by some producers who make films for the heck of it, they complete their films for small amounts, sell it at low costs with almost no publicity.
We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.
In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might
Time is priceless, yet it costs us nothing. You can do anything you want with it, but you canâ€™t own it. You can spend it, but you canâ€™t keep it. And once youâ€™ve lost it, there is no getting it back. Itâ€™s just gone.
No, no, it is obvious that the ECU should act as a close alliance for the benefit of chess.

William Nordhaus famous quotes

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