Tuesday Map: what makes up 5% of the world’s GDP?
Tue, 07/07/2009 - 6:49pm
In 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimated that global warming would decrease global GDP by up to 5 percent. As Waxman-Markey was being debated on the Hill, Jim Manzi over The American Scene questioned the necessity for action on global warming, noting that 5 percent was a small amount to be worried over. Nate Silver at 538.com decided to take up that challenge, seeing how many countries could be removed before reaching 5 percent of global GDP. The result is a startingly large number:
