A climate study hedged with potentials and implications
Tom KirkmanIndependent Project Manager
Oh goody, a study which predicts *potential* and *indirect* consequences of Global Warming.
AKA Climate Crisis.
And it’s good to know that a
*Professor of Climate Change Economics in China*
contributed to this study.
Key bullp00pery hedging terminology scattered liberally throughout the article include:
● Implications
● Poised to have
● Potentially
● Which stand to
● Attributable to
● Previously deemed
● Indirect
● Projected
● Leading to
● Previously unquantified
● Cascading effects
● Ramifications
● Rising exponentially
● Indicates
● Due to
● Advocating for
● If
===========================
“A new study led by King’s College London reveals the profound implications climate change is poised to have on global supply chains, potentially stagnating economies worldwide over the next forty years.
This research highlights the vulnerability of manufacturing-dependent giants like China and the US, which stand to bear the brunt of supply chain disruptions triggered by climatic phenomena, regardless of their geographical remoteness from the events themselves.
This seminal work marks the first comprehensive effort to map out the “indirect economic losses” global supply chains face due to climate change, particularly affecting regions previously deemed less susceptible to the adverse effects of rising global temperatures.
The findings project an exponential growth in global GDP losses attributable to these indirect impacts, emphasizing the expanding economic toll as climate change intensifies.
Such previously unquantified disruptions in supply chains will increasingly exacerbate projected economic losses due to climate change, leading to a projected net economic loss of between $3.75 trillion and $24.7 trillion by 2060.
… “These projected economic impacts are staggering. These losses get worse the more the planet warms, and when you factor in the effects on global supply chains it shows how everywhere is at economic risk,” stated project leader Dabo Guan, a professor of climate change economics at Tsinghua University in Beijing. …”