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Bill Armstrong
Recommendations to Limit
Global Warming
• Make buildings and industries more energy
efficient
• Improve urban planning to reduce travel
• Encourage greener modes of consumerism
• Design more fuel efficient vehicles
• Promote biofuels
• Promote mass transportation
• Improve mix of tree species in forests
2007 UN Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change
Limiting Global Warming
2007 UN Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change
A 2C Rise in Global Temperature
is predicted to:
$435
to
$1,306
Per Year
Per Person
U.S. Citizen
Cost to Limit Cost of Global
Global Warming Warming
$435
to
$1,306
Per Year
Per Person
Estimated
Eastern U.S.
Coastline with
three meter rise
in sea level
New York City
Cost of Natural Disasters
• Hurricane Katrina $150 billion
• Hurricane Andrew $36 billion
• Hurricane Hugo $12.6 billion
• 1993 Mississippi Flood $12 billion
• 1980 U.S. Drought $48 billion
• 1988 U.S. Drought $62 billion
India
Bangladesh
China
India
Bangladesh
Cost of Global Warming
• Sterns Report, October 2006
$9 Trillion Dollars
or more *
* Greater than the combined cost of World War 1
and World War II and the great depression
Cost to Limit Cost of Global
Global Warming Warming
1% to 3% 5 % to
of global 20% of
GDP for global GDP
50 to 100 forever
years
U.S. Resident
Cost to Limit Cost of Global
Global Warming Warming per
per Person Person
$435 $2,177
to to
$1,306 $8,709
Per Year Per Year