Published 2 years ago

Costs associated with carbon emissions three times federal estimate: study

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Each ton of carbon dioxide that exits a smokestack or tailpipe is doing far more damage than what governments take into account. Researchers from a variety of fields are trying to figure out through a metric called the social cost of carbon. The price represents the total climate damage caused to society through carbon emissions. Currently, the United States government uses a price of $51 per ton.

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News18 India

Carbon Pollution May Be Nearly 4 Times Higher Than We Think, Finds Study

The "social cost of carbon" is a way of evaluating the negative economic, labour and health consequences of CO2 emissions, calculated as the difference between the cost of reducing those emissions and the damages prevented by the reductions.

2 years ago·India

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The Independent

Carbon should cost 3.6 times more than US price, study says

Each ton of carbon dioxide that exits a smokestack or tailpipe is doing far more damage than what governments take into account, researchers conclude in a scientific paper published Thursday

2 years ago·London, United Kingdom

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Reuters

U.S. is seriously underestimating the consequences of CO2

The U.S. government is drastically underestimating the social cost of carbon dioxide emissions, which is 3.6 times higher than the estimate currently used to inform many of Washington's key climate policies, a study suggested on Thursday.

2 years ago·United Kingdom

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Associated Press News

Carbon should cost 3.6 times more than US price, study says

Each ton of carbon dioxide that exits a smokestack or tailpipe is doing far more damage than what governments take into account, researchers conclude in a scientific paper published Thursday. Major hurricanes pack more rain, while extremes of wildfire, drought and downpours are all happening more often and with more intensity due to climate change, causing loss of communities, homes and lives all over the world.

2 years ago·United States

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The Washington Post

Costs of climate change far surpass government estimates, study says

A paper in the journal Nature on the damage caused by climate change brings into relief the threat that higher temperatures pose on the lives and livelihoods of millions of people at home and overseas.

2 years ago

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KIFI

Carbon should cost 3.6 times more than US price, study says - Local News 8

BY DREW COSTLEY and MATTHEW BROWN Each ton of carbon dioxide that exits a smokestack or tailpipe is doing far more damage than what governments take into account, researchers conclude in a scientific paper published Thursday. Researchers from around the United States collaborated on a new model for calculating the social cost of carbon, a

2 years ago·Idaho Falls, United States

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