Tropical #cyclones substantially raise the Social Cost of Carbon: With #GlobalWarming the share of the most intense tropical cyclones is expected to increase so that economies may not be able to recover fully in between storms.
However, long-term effects of extreme events are not taken into account so far. The real costs are probably even higher than currently estimated and the benefits of climate mitigation consequently underestimated, a new study shows: https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest-news/a-fifth-higher-tropical-cyclones-substantially-raise-the-social-cost-of-carbon
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PIK_climate (pik_climate@wisskomm.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Nov-2023 00:41:38 JST PIK_climate -
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HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Nov-2023 00:42:56 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 #ClimateCatastrophe news are becoming "better" every week:
"With #GlobalWarming the share of the most intense tropical cyclones is expected to increase so that economies may not be able to recover fully in between storms.
However, long-term effects of extreme events are not taken into account so far."
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