Europe is investing heavily in trains

Re:Europe is investing heavily in trains by stephen_g on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @12:56AM (#30998778)

Nordhaus's work is absolutely panned as being basically literally insane by actual scientists. He based a large parts of his analysis on ideas like "well x% (something like 75%+) of GDP happens indoors so that won't be affected by any way by climate change".

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Re:Europe is investing heavily in trains by xyzzyz on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @01:23AM (#30998918)

Why didn't those actual scientists bring this up when he, you know, got a Nobel Prize for that? Or are you arguing here that Nobel Prize is a joke, and people who give it are total idiots?

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Re:Europe is investing heavily in trains by hgomersall on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @02:20AM (#30999263)

The "Nobel Prize" in economics is very much a joke.

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Re:Europe is investing heavily in trains by stephen_g on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @03:21AM (#30999639)

The 'Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel' isn't really much like the actual Nobel Prizes (except maybe the Nobel Peace Prize, that one has proven to be a bit of a joke too, but at least it's a real Nobel Prize).

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Re:Europe is investing heavily in trains by panick21_ on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @11:43AM (#31004196)

Yes it is. It gets promoted the same way by the foundation and it has the same recognition in the field.

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