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Forecasting the Economic Impact of a Changing Climate (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Academic research has been busily trying to pin down how a changing climate will affect our planet over the long- and short-term. But a new study in the journal Nature attempts to forecast not the changes in weather, but the changes in our economy as a result of climate change. "The study (abstract) finds that climate change can be expected to reshape the global economy by reducing average global incomes roughly 23 percent by the year 2100. This study is important because it solves a problem that has existed in prior models of climate change effects on economics: discrepancies between macro and micro level observations." Notably, the paper provides evidence that regional economies can be linked to global climate effects. "This modeling allowed them to examine whether country-specific deviations from growth trends were related to country-specific differences in temperature and precipitation trends, while accounting for any global shifts that would be experienced to affect all countries."
Wow, add up the funding that these groups get. $39 million here, $45 million there. Third on the list seems to be sue happy with $800,000 per year for their executive director which is now a former head of Dupont. One charges for membership, 74 million a year for another. Others are award societies that hand out awards, so I'm not sure how or why they'd have an official stance on climate change. One represents €25 billion in funding in Europe alone. But I'm sure none would lie or support things just to keep the funds rolling