http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/wealthofnations/archive/2009/07/08/Nate-Silver-on-How-to-Destroy-5_2500_-of-Global-GDP-_2800_and-Half-the-World_2900_.aspxCredit: Nate Silver, fivethirtyeight.com Today in graphics that should make your palms sweat: Nate Silver, the 538.com numbers nerd who brought the world minute-by-minute election coverage, is now delivering a detailed vision of global climate-inducedenCommunityServer 2.1 SP2 (Debug Build: 2.18)http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/wealthofnations/archive/2009/07/08/Nate-Silver-on-How-to-Destroy-5_2500_-of-Global-GDP-_2800_and-Half-the-World_2900_.aspx#1078105Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:37:25 GMT544c64cf-7058-4151-925a-a0fd041e73dd:1078105eskildsonloyd<p>Incoherent ranting - what's wrong with Newsweek?</p> Blog: Wealth of Nationshttp://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/wealthofnations/archive/2009/07/08/Nate-Silver-on-How-to-Destroy-5_2500_-of-Global-GDP-_2800_and-Half-the-World_2900_.aspx#1078476Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:28:20 GMT544c64cf-7058-4151-925a-a0fd041e73dd:1078476Hermotimus<p>this bit of reckoning leaves out the fact that the decreases in GDP due to reducing climate change would not come from the nations with the smallest carbon footprint. It would come from the nations with the largest carbon footprint, such as North America, all of Europe, Japan, China, Brazil, Russia and a few other countries who either have high carbon footprints now or who are rapidly increasing their carbon footprints. The countries with small carbon footprints will not be directly affected by changes made to curb global warming because they are not part of the problem of global warming and with new international laws eventually pout into place, as they do develop into modern states, their carbon footprints will not grow because they will have the benefit of all the technology the developed nations are working on creating to curb greenhouse gas emmissions and global warming. </p> Blog: Wealth of Nations