Sentences with phrase «low damage estimates»

While you may pay a lower premium, the insurer could give you unreasonably low damage estimates or force you to pay more for manufacturer replacement parts.

Not exact matches

In addition, energy stocks rebounded and, based on damage estimates being lower than initially thought, insurance company shares mounted a comeback as well.

With estimates of the revenue - maximizing rate in the 60s or low 70s, such tax hikes would leave little room to tax the wealthy for anything else, and it could create real economic damage in the process.

In a further setback to reducing U.S. carbon emissions, the U.S Environmental Protection Agency has proposed lowering the U.S. government's «social cost» of carbon, or the estimated cost of sea - level rise, lower crop yields, and other climate - change related economic damages, from $ 42 per ton by 2020 to a low of $ 1 per ton.

Such estimates are based on a total loss scenario for the affected homes and could be lower depending on the amount of damage caused.

The Civic's $ 1,274 in estimated rear damage when hit by the CR - V was the lowest among cars in this test.

Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including glacial lakes outburst loods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over,

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.

Likewise, when climate sensitivity is low, emissions drive less temperature change and cause less damage, leading to lower estimates of the SCC.

In contrast, EPA's estimate for the total gains from avoided climate change damages as well as other factors (such as reduced macroeconomic volatility from reduced reliance on oil imports), might yield as little as $ 29 billion in the year 2040, in the scenario where the «social cost of carbon» is relatively low.

«For existing RPS policies, the lower - bound estimates for human health benefits associated with improved air quality come in at least $ 48bn, plus $ 37bn in benefits from reduced damage to the climate.»

The vulnerable nations declared that they are, «Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including Glacial Lakes Outburst Floods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over...»

(1) climate sensitivity estimates ignore higher estimates; (2) damage estimates at low - temp increases (2.5 C) are off; (3) damage estimates at high - temp increases (10C to 20C) are just silly.

But the estimates of «one to seven years» means that there will be no periods in the 21st century when temperatures are low enough to keep the corn earworm from damaging crops.

It's correct to take the precautionary principle into account in the estimate of the damages giving more weight to the unfavorable outcomes than to the favorable, but the uncertainties in the efficiency of the mitigating measures should be also taken into account and taken them into account means that the correct level of tax is lower than it would be without this uncertainty.

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

Aerosol injections are the most prominent solar geoengineering scheme, and a tempting one: at under $ 10 billion annually the estimated direct costs are low when compared to the trillions of dollars in climate damages they might help to offset.

• 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.

The study finds that the 20 gigawatts (GW) of solar installed as of the end of 2014 is already lowering annual GHGs by 17 million metric tons, worth about $ 700 million per year if valued with a central estimate of the «social cost of carbon» — the Obama Administration's estimate of the long - term damage done by one ton of carbon emissions.

Yet, when we estimate the damage costs of CO2 emissions, Sir Nicholas Stern, Ross Garnaut and Richard Tol use comparatively very low discount rates.

If this work is true, or partly true, 19 the total damage being done by low level ionising radiation may have been under - estimated and would not be restricted to cancer.