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The poor will suffer the most from global warming, but they’ll still often be much better off than they are now. For example, there are estimates that global warming will cost Bangladesh 10% of its GDP by the end of the century. That’s a lot, but it would be far worse to try and avoid climate change and risk losing even 1 point of annual GDP growth until then.

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There are also estimates that Bangladesh will be under the ocean by the end of the century - wonder whether that's worth forgoing 1% annual GDP growth.

They’ve been estimating some place or another would be underwater for years. And it still hasn’t happened. What did Al Gore say in 2009 about the ice caps in “5-7 years?” Gore wasn’t even close to correct.

Mentioning Al Gore in the context of climate change is unserious, although I'm sure it's good fodder for Facebook memes.

>They’ve been estimating some place or another would be underwater for years. And it still hasn’t happened.

Because most of those predictions weren't claimed to be happening within the next few years. This would still be some decades off, at least.

>What did Al Gore say in 2009 about the ice caps in “5-7 years?” Gore wasn’t even close to correct.

[sigh] Here, give me your hand, I'll hold it for you...

>"These figures are fresh,” Gore said on Dec. 14, 2009, during the COP15 climate change conference in Copenhagen.

>He added: “Some of the models suggest to Dr [Wieslav] Maslowski that there is a 75% chance that the entire north polar ice cap during some of the summer months could be completely ice-free within the next five to seven years.”

>Gore cited findings from climatologist Dr Wieslav Maslowski, a research professor at the Naval Postgraduate School.

>However, it appears he mis-stated the forecast, according to reporting at the time.

>In an interview with The Times published on Dec. 15, 2009, Dr Maslowski said: “It’s unclear to me how this figure was arrived at. I would never try to estimate likelihood at anything as exact as this.”

https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-climate-change-idU...

I would also hope that I don't need to point out to you that just because Gore didn't know how to communicate data he was seeing, that that means climate change isn't a thing. I feel like I do, though, because your comment so obviously feels like you're willfully not paying attention.

Less of Bangladesh will be underwater by the end of the century than Holland in the 19th century. My dad was complaining yesterday that “Bangladeshi kids today don’t know what it’s like to have to take a boat to school during monsoon season.” Flood control technology has pretty much eliminated such flooding in his village and those like it.

Holland was (and is) a rich country that could afford such floor control systems.

Holland in 19th century was poorer than Bangladesh is today, but they managed to build dykes and other flooding control measures.

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