Comments on: Warmer but Richer http://www.climate-skeptic.com/2007/10/warmer-but-rich.html Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:47:37 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Devil's Kitchen http://www.climate-skeptic.com/2007/10/warmer-but-rich.html/comment-page-1#comment-107 Devil's Kitchen Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:31:05 +0000 http://climate-movie.com/wordpress/2007/10/warmer-but-rich.html #comment-107 <p>The scenario is called the A1 family. Unfortunately, there was a political argument against Stern adopting it. The A1 family of scenarios is based on increasing globalisation and increasing free trade, both in ordinary economic activity and in technologies (especially power tech).</p> <p>The Stern Report was commissioned by the government of Great Britain, which is a member of the European Union; in turn, the European Union is, primarily, a protectionist customs union: that is to say, the EU is an organisation that, by design, hampers free trade.</p> <p>To say that our best chance of beating AGW (even supposing that it exists) is to break up protectionist entities such as the EU was not politically desirable for the British government (which would, in any case, benefit -- both financially and through the increase in power -- by scaring its populace.</p> <p>DK</p> The scenario is called the A1 family. Unfortunately, there was a political argument against Stern adopting it. The A1 family of scenarios is based on increasing globalisation and increasing free trade, both in ordinary economic activity and in technologies (especially power tech).

The Stern Report was commissioned by the government of Great Britain, which is a member of the European Union; in turn, the European Union is, primarily, a protectionist customs union: that is to say, the EU is an organisation that, by design, hampers free trade.

To say that our best chance of beating AGW (even supposing that it exists) is to break up protectionist entities such as the EU was not politically desirable for the British government (which would, in any case, benefit — both financially and through the increase in power — by scaring its populace.

DK

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