Wilfred Beckerman and Jesse Malkin

Global warming, even if it increased significantly in the twenty- first century, would present no cause for alarm, Wilfred Becker- man and Jesse Malkin assert in the following viewpoint. Becker- man and Malkin maintain that the environmental and economic effects of global warming would not be severe and that the harm from global warming can be reduced by developing alternative energy sources and reducing the use of fossil fuels. Beckerman is a fellow at Oxford University’s Balliol College in England. Malkin is a doctoral fellow at the RAND Graduate School in Santa Monica, California.

As you read, consider the following questions:

1. Why would global warming have little impact on the U.S. economy, in the authors’ opinion?
2. According to Beckerman and Malkin, how could coastal cities be protected...