[raybbr]

Economic estimates that assign value to the long-term benefits that would come from reducing warming — things like fewer deaths from heat and less flooding — show that every dollar invested in quickly making low-carbon energy cheaper can do $16 worth of good.

This is just an outright lie. How can they prove this "theory"? It's never been tried.

[neverdem]

This is just an outright lie. How can they prove this "theory"? It's never been tried.

He certainly didn't help himself with that statement.

[Straight Vermonter]

The argument is specious. He advocates fewer deaths by heat which sounds wonderful until you realize that deaths by cold weather are far more likely to kill.