A lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – the group that shared last year’s Nobel Peace Prize with Gore – told the experts that spending $800 billion over 100 years solely on mitigating emissions would reduce inevitable temperature increases by just 0.4 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of this century. Even accounting for the key environmental damage from warming, we would lose money, with avoided damages of just $685 billion for our $800 billion investment.
政府间气候变化工作小组－和戈尔分享去年的诺贝尔和平奖的组织－的主要缔造者告诉这些专家，在100年间花费8000亿美元专门用于减少排放，到本世纪末，只会对必然的气温升高减少华氏0.4度。即使算上变暖导致的主要环境损害，我们也会赔钱，因为挽回的损失只有6850亿美元而我们在这上面的投入达8000亿美元。