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Have the real possibility, unfortunately a high probability, that consequences would be vast multiples of the base case. Instead of just being severe, in addition to being severe, in the long run it would become catastrophic. We can expand on that in our conversation. Secondly, i said to a friend of mine the other day who is a wellknown new york this newsman this businessman that i had developed an intense concern about this. He said we can deal with this decades done the road. I said no, the reason, as many of you know, the decay rate of Greenhouse Gases in the atmosphere is hundreds of years. What we do today will affect us for hundreds of years. Theyre cumulative, they are irreversible, and as a consequence, this is an issue that cannot wait. As hank paulson observed to me the other day, if you look past over the cap past 10 years and see the predictions climate scientist have made, they bring forward the timeframe when the severe consequences occurred. This is an issue that we have
Coming up, next on cspan treasury secretary jack lew talking about the economic effects of Climate Change followed by president obamas recent visit to the u. N. Where he addressed the General Assembly and led a Security Council meeting on foreign terrorist fighters. Good afternoon. On behalf of the hamilton project thank you for joining us this afternoon for a public discussion of the Economic Costs of Climate Change. It is our privilege today to host u. S. Treasury secretary jacob lew who will give remarks on Climate Change and followed by a roundtable discussion between secretary lew and former treasury robert l suching bin and professor of economics at chicago Michael Green stone, before i turn it over to secretary ruben i would like to give a brief introduction to the project, and this is at the brook ings institution is named after Alexander Hamilton the first secretary who laid the foundation for the modern American Economy so its fitting we welcome two u. S. Treasury second secr