`4°C of global warming is optimal` - even Nobel Prize winners are getting things catastrophically wrong
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Some places are hotter than others - but what happens when they all heat up? Calvin Hanson/Unsplash , CC BY-SA William Nordhaus was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Economics for `integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis` . This implies that he worked out what global heating means for our economy, given what climate scientists say will happen to our planet. But Nordhaus´s predictions of what global heating will cost the earth are dangerously at odds with the science. In his Nobel Prize lecture , Nordhaus described a 4°C increase in global average temperature as `optimal` - that is, the point at which the costs and benefits of mitigating climate change are balanced. In a...