Former UN IPCC Lead Author Dr. Richard Tol: ‘One of the startling facts about climate change is that there are very few facts about climate change. Climate change is mainly something of the future so we are really talking about model projections’
EIF 2014: UN Climate Change efforts destined to fail, as Beijing will shape policies for years to come, according to University of Sussex Professor Richard Tol. WRIN.tv speaks with Dr. Richard Tol during the recent European Insurance Forum about climate change, and its impact on the insurance industry. He is a Professor at the University of Sussex, and the Professor of the Economics of Climate Change at the Institute for Environmental Studies and Department of Spatial Economics at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. According to Dr Tol, “ One of the startling facts about climate change is that there are very few facts about climate change. Climate change is mainly something of the future so we are really talking about model projections .” Dr. Tol feels that the impact of climate change is a “ symptom of underdevelopment and mismanagement. For example (hurricane) Katrina devastated New Orleans. How much of that was due to bad weather and how...