The establishment media last week tripped over themselves to bring attention to a paper by climate alarmists asserting global warming is making global economic inequality worse. A review of the data show the assertion is nonsense.

Noah Diffenbaugh and Marshall Burke co-authored the paper in question.  Both have a long history of publicly asserting a global warming crisis. That being the case, it is in their reputational best interest to present papers further raising – rather than scuttling – alarm about global warming. Their previous activism does not by itself disqualify any assertions in their paper, but it should lead the media and others to look closely and take with a grain of salt any new alarmist claims from the two.
Diffenbaugh and Burke claimed to tease from each nation’s historical gross domestic product an impact from global warming.

The two authors asserted that nations closer to the poles disproportionately benefit from global warming because warmer temperatures bring these nations close to a temperature optimum, and that nations closer to the equator are disproportionately harmed by warming temperatures that take them further away from a temperature optimum. Because more people live closer to the equator than the poles, and because nations closer to the poles are wealthier than nations closer to the equator, the two asserted global warming makes global economic inequality worse..........To Read More.....