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The Impact of Climate Change on Hurricane Damages in the United States
Description: This paper quantifies hurricane damage caused by climate change across the US. Income and population growth alone increase expected baseline damage from $9 to $27 billion per year by 2100. Climate change is expected to increase damage by another $40 billion. Over 85 percent of these impacts are in Florida and the Gulf states. The 10 percent most damaging storms cause 93 percent of expected damage. [Source: Social Science Research Network (SSRN)]
URL: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1955105
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Source: Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
Publish Date: 2/1/2011
Reading Level: Expert
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