April 27, 2023
٣٣# مراجعة كتاب بيورن لومبورغ "إنذار كاذب" (القسم الثالث)
False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet
The book explains how climate policies can negatively impact poor communities in various ways. For example, climate policies that aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions often involve increasing the cost of energy, such as through carbon taxes or cap-and-trade programs. This can disproportionately affect low-income households, who spend a larger portion of their income on energy. And some climate policies, such as regulations on fossil fuel industries, can lead to job loss in those sectors.
Read MoreApril 14, 2023
٣٢# مراجعة كتاب بيورن لومبورغ "إنذار كاذب" القسم الثاني
False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet
The book discusses the cost of global warming on the world. Professor William Nordhaus, a climate economist who won the Nobel Prize in economics in 2018, has studied the issue much of his career. Economists like Nordhaus estimate the cost of future climate change impacts by collating scientific evidence from various areas and inputting the economic information into computer models. These models take into account the impact of climate change on various aspects such as agriculture, energy, forestry, sea-level rise, water resources, storms, biodiversity, health, and migration. According to the studies, the cost of climate change is significant but moderate in terms of global GDP. The impact is typically negative, meaning that global warming will overall be a cost or a problem. At 7.2°F in 2100, climate change would cause negative impacts equivalent to a 2.9 percent loss to global GDP. However, when taking into account the fact that people and communities will take measures to adapt to the effects of rising temperatures, the damaging impacts of climate change are rather low. The speaker also discusses agriculture, which is acutely vulnerable to changes in weather. Despite headlines suggesting massive reductions in food production due to climate change, a study by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization predicts a reduction of just a fraction of one percent by midcentury.
Read MoreMarch 28, 2023
٣١# مراجعة كتاب بيورن لومبورغ "إنذار كاذب" القسم الأول
False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet
Bjorn Lomborg is a Danish author and the think tank Copenhagen Consensus Center president. He became internationally known for his best-selling and controversial book, The Skeptical Environmentalist, published in 2001. In his 2021 book False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet." Lomborg criticizes conventional climate change policies. He blames them for harming the poor and the economy and how, despite the massive costs of these policies, they do not contribute to providing practical solutions to the climate problem.
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March 1, 2023
٣٠# مراجعة كتاب بلوبرنت: كيف يحدد الدي أن أيه من نكون/القسم الأخير
Blueprint: How DNA makes us who we are 3/3
The author argues that as people age, the influence of genetics becomes more critical in shaping their traits and abilities. Intelligence, which is often considered to be a measure of general cognitive ability, is highly influenced by genetics. Studies have shown that genetics account for about 50% of the differences between people in intelligence tests. The correlation between biological parents and their children increases from 20% in infancy to 65% in adulthood, and the same increase of resemblance is found for adopted children and their biological parents. This process is known as gene amplification and occurs as people increasingly select, modify, and create an environment correlated with their genetic propensities.
Read MoreFebruary 11, 2023
٢٩# مراجعة كتاب بلوبرنت: كيف يحدد الدي أن أيه من نكون/القسم الثاني
Blueprint: How DNA makes us who we are
The CAP outcomes are presented in four books and hundreds of articles. The study supported the evidence that genetics substantially influences psychological traits. For example, the study found genetic influence on specific cognitive abilities, such as verbal and spatial abilities, and different kinds of memory, like recalling names for faces and reading ability. The study also found that temperament is highly heritable. And it shows a significant genetic influence on behavior problems, like attention problems and loneliness.
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