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From: Wharf Rat6/5/2018 9:36:12 AM
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Experts "grossly underestimate" the economic cost of global warming

June 4, 2018 by BRANDON A. WEBER


This map shows 16 weather and climate disasters in the U.S. in 2017 that caused 362 direct fatalities in total, and each exceeded $1 billion in losses. (Credit: NOAA)

A group of authors from several backgrounds, including Thomas Stoerk of the Environmental Defense Fund, Gernot Wagner of the Harvard University Center for the Environment, and Bob Ward of the ESRC Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science, have written a paperwarning that the true economic damage of global warming is "grossly" underestimated.

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