U.S. has entered unprecedented climate territory

Re:U.S. has entered unprecedented climate territory by engineer_22 on Thursday May 13, 2021 @11:34AM (#27143293)

@bryanlarson Thank you for a thoughtful reply. Can you share your sources so I can educate myself better?

Particularly, what are the adaptation costs?

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Re:U.S. has entered unprecedented climate territory by bryanlarsen on Thursday May 13, 2021 @11:44AM (#27143399)

Bill Gates' book "How to Avoid a Climate Disaster" would be a great place to start.

Mitigation costs are expenses to prevent climate change.

Adaptation costs are expenses incurred because of climate change. Some of them are relatively easy to calculate like $200B to build a sea wall for New York City. Some of them are more handwavy -- what are the costs of mass migration? Most of these costs are incurred by farmers.

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