Massive Methane Release In Arctic Projected To Cost World $60 Trillion
July 30th, 2013 by Important Media Cross-Post
As we’ve written several times, the cost of climate inaction is much greater than the cost of climate action. In this Planetsave repost below, we can see how just one of global warming’s many harmful effects is projected to cost the world $60 trillion.
$60 Trillion Global Economic Impact Of A Massive Methane Release In The Arctic, New Study Shows (via Planetsave)
Up to $60 trillion USD (just shy of the global GDP for one year) is what climate change impacts will cost the world’s economy if the estimated 50 billion tons of seafloor-trapped methane gas in the East Siberian Arctic Shelf were to be released into…
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