The article's headline was complemented with a prophetic subhead: "America is set on a brave but hazardous course." The statement was made in reference to Bush's debut of a phrase that hearkened back to Ronald Reagan's labeling of the Soviet Union as the "Evil Empire." In his speech, ...
this method assumes that the relationship between temperature and GDP today could be used to predict what will happen as the whole planet’s climate changes. But while temperature isn’t a particularly important factor in economic output today, climate change will do much more...