Rep. Barbara Lee: ‘I Don’t Agree with States’ Rights’ Because Trump Does
View on Breitbart website"But according to Roberton Williams, a professor at the University of Maryland and director of academic programs for Resources for the Future, a non-partisan group that studied the climate change agreement, it is difficult to know exactly what the economic impacts of withdrawing will be.
Williams was interviewed by the Boston public radio station in May where he was asked about the economic impact of leaving the agreement.
'One of the problems we have, we’re much better at modeling the cost of doing something to reduce emissions than we are modeling the cost of doing nothing,' Williams said. 'We don’t know very well how other countries are gonna react.
'If other countries react by doing less to fight climate change, that has very real costs,” Williams said. 'That unchecked climate change could have very serious costs for the U.S. economy.
'But knowing exactly how big that is is really hard,' Williams said."
