Post by Center on Global Energy Policy

This year climate science took some hits: the most extreme emissions pathway was scrapped, a major cost estimate was retracted, a new paper questioned whether climate damages can even be modeled precisely. Critics called it vindication. CGEP experts Jason Bordoff and Noah Kaufman see it differently. In Foreign Policy, they point to the heat wave that just swept Europe — with an estimated 12,000 excess deaths in three days — as a preview of a world now trending toward 2.5–3°C of warming. Their argument: uncertainty about the scale of climate damage isn't a reason to relax, it's exactly why we should take the risk more seriously, the same way we do with pandemics or nuclear safety. Read here: https://lnkd.in/gdhAB7yT