Omitted Damages: What’s Missing From the Social Cost of Carbon
Fires, flooding, and infectious diseases are some of the risks of a warming climate, and they would cost trillions of dollars to deal with. When carbon-reducing regulations are considered, $37 per ton is used to account for the public costs of rising temperatures. But too many serious risks of climate change have not yet been included in the government’s estimate. Omitted Damages: What’s Missing from the Social Cost of Carbon reviews cutting edge scientific and economic research to determine which serious climate effects are not properly incorporated into the “social cost of carbon” estimates.
