Sentences with phrase «anticipated cost of climate change»

But these events are all in the same class, and if they are becoming more common, the anticipated cost of climate change needs to be adjusted upward.

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We anticipate that the energy transition will be driven largely by mounting concerns about climate change, by climbing oil prices, and by the restructuring of taxes to incorporate the indirect costs of burning fossil fuels.

(ii) Saying that the cost - benefit analysis has to be performed on the basis of criteria from outside the sciences merely acknowledges the fact that the decision to choose among several ways of reacting to or anticipating climate changes invokes genuine moral values that science can — and indeed should — be neutral about.