A new “Lives Saved Calculator” was just released by a collaboration of experts called the Climate Impact Lab. They calculate a total of 7.4 million lives saved over this century if the U.S. cuts emissions to net-zero.
“Each additional ton of carbon has these global impacts – there is a tangible difference in terms of death rates,” said Hannah Hess, associate director at the research group Rhodium, which is part of the Climate Impact Lab consortium that…
The Climate Impact Team is an international research consortium that tries to turn climate data into useful models of the future. Their work is fueling public conversations about potential climate “winners and losers”. “Climate change is going to make life…
In a 2013 meta-analysis of more than 50 scientific studies, Stanford economist Marshall Burke and Solomon Hsiang, director of UC Berkeley’s Global Policy Laboratory, found that global warming is connected to a rise in violence, from fights and assaults to…
“The story of climate change is one of high inequality and we’re seeing that playing out already in the poorest and hottest regions of the world,” said Tamma Carleton, assistant professor of economics at UC Santa Barbara’s Bren School of…