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On the recordNovember 30, 2015
I've been reading your ideas for some time now and have always found them very interesting. In my simple terms, you agree that climate change is real and it's manmade but the costs to stop or significantly slow this is much greater than the cost to simply adapt to it.
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Don Beyer
Democratic · Virginia

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Beyer summarizes Lomborg's stance on climate change and adaptation costs.

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