A new National Bureau of Economic Research study estimating the economic impact of global warming has generated scary headlines. A closer look at the study shows that it instead belongs in footnotes.
The NBER study estimates that if the earth's temperature rises by 0.01° C per year through 2100, total U.S. GDP in 2100 will be 1.88 percent lower than it would otherwise be by the end of this century.
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