Damage estimates range as high as $ 190 billion.
Not exact matches
It's also worth noting that extrapolating information from a single U.S. county to others isn't an exact science, which is why the
range in
estimated damage is so broad.
Harvey is on track to become one of the costliest storms in U.S. history, with an
estimates ranging from around $ 75 billion to $ 95 billion in
damages, accounting for property
damage to cars, homes, commercial buildings and infrastructure.
And preliminary
damage estimates for the California wildfires
range from $ 1 billion to $ 6 billion or more.
Niagara County Legislator John Syracuse
ranged the cost of the
damage to be $ 175,000 - $ 200,000 at the county level while further explaining that a «rough
estimate» of $ 7.48 million will be needed to shore up the individual residents and businesses in the area.
It does indeed contain the 0.64 cents / kWh figure cited by Lomborg, in a table labeled «
Estimates and Best Guesses of
Damages» with a footnote and accompanying text indicating that the figure is some sort of average of a considerable
range of values presented in the report, which extend from at least 8 times smaller to at least 150 times larger.
Dear Mike, from an engineering perspective if the best you have is a
range estimates, you design for the most
damaging.
The innocent layperson may have thought that looming climate change
damages would be enough, but that isn't the case for the lower
range of sensitivity
estimates, again as EPA's own table shows.
The models used to calculate a Social Cost of Carbon for use in
estimating the benefits of reducing carbon emissions fall far short of including a wide
range of expected
damages from global climate disruption.
Along with the hot summer, annual precipitation for 2003 was as much as 12 inches (300 millimeters) below normal, leaving most of Europe in a drought.21
Damages to the agricultural sector were
estimated at more than U.S. $ 16 billion (more than $ 13 billion).3, 21 Many areas saw an increase in wildfires, while low water levels in major rivers led to problems
ranging from irrigating crops to cooling power plants.4, 21,22
• Poles to tropics temperature gradient, average temp of tropics over past 540 Ma; and arguably warming may be net - beneficial overall • Quotes from IPCC AR4 WG1 showing that warming would be beneficial for life, not
damaging • Quotes from IPCC AR5 WG3 stating (in effect) that the
damage functions used for
estimating damages are not supported by evidence • Richard Tol's breakdown of economic impacts of GW by sector • Economic
damages of climate change — about the IAMs • McKitrick — Social Cost of Carbon much lower than commonly stated • Bias on impacts of GHG emissions — Figure 1 is a chart showing 15 recent
estimates of SCC — Lewis and Curry, 2015, has the lowest uncertainty
range.
I specified the
range of
damage estimated that IMO can reasonably be held regarding BAU.
I would encourage you to stop legitimizing the denialist argument that «Reasonable
estimates range from economic
damage significantly greater than the cost of mitigation...».
The RAND study
estimated these
damages to
range between $ 7.2 and $ 32 million dollars in 2011.
The Court of Appeal considered the question of whether the sum was too extravagant, having regard to the
range of
damages which the innocent party was likely to suffer, that it could not constitute a genuine
estimate of the
damages that he could have suffered.
The
estimates are wide -
ranging - from $ 70 billion in
damages projected by catastrophe modeling...