(8 Oct 2018) Yale University economics professor William Nordhaus, who won the Nobel prize in economics for linking climate change and economics, says there's "pretty widespread acceptance" of climate change science outside the U.S.
But he's optimistic that the United States will come around.
Referring to the Trump administration's skepticism, the 77-year-old Nordhaus said Monday, "I think we just need to get through what is a difficult period. But I'm extremely confident it will happen."
Nordhaus says bringing countries together to solve the climate change problem is the "last frontier" for the issue, arguing that the science has been settled.
He warns it will be very difficult to have an international agreement without the U.S. participating, predicting the country will have to revisit the issue "in a couple of years" after a new administration is in place.
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