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Climate Study Widely Used by Central Banks Retracted Over Errors
Authors retract influential climate cost study after data errors increased uncertainty and lowered damage estimates; paper accessed over 300,000 times and cited 168 times, Potsdam Institute said.
- A highly publicized study on the catastrophic economic costs of climate change has been retracted due to data errors.
- The study originally predicted a 19% decrease in global income by 2050 due to climate change, but a revised analysis puts the figure at 17%.
- Authors found the errors were in economic data from Uzbekistan from 1995 to 1999 and that they had underestimated statistical uncertainty.
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Catastrophic Climate Study Retracted As Climate Change Fades for Some US Lawmakers
A widely cited doomsday study on economic damage from climate change published in Nature was retracted Wednesday following criticism from peers. The research, published last year, projected that the world’s economic output would decline 62% by 2100 under a high-carbon emissions scenario. The estimate was much more severe than other forecasts, prompting scrutiny of the underlying data. […] The post Catastrophic Climate Study Retracted As Climate …
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