• laverabe@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Because you can very easily already calculate the increased cost of natural disasters; droughts, floods, severe storms with wind and hail damage, crop spoilage, etc that is occurring right now. The future disasters will be worse.

    As explained in the article they take the cost of current disasters and multiply the known effects of global warming to calculate what costs will be. They can only calculate what they know.

    The costs are probably more like 1000x anyway because there is no way to really apply an accounting system to a complete calamity that would happen if numerous very likely feedback loops happen, as they hint to in the article.

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      8 months ago

      No you cant, anyone telling you its easy to guestimate such a thing is ignorant or lying. Do you see the issue with people motivated by ideology making studies that show things that the conclusion will be in their favor?