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The social cost of carbon dioxide under climate-economy feedbacks and temperature variability
A key statistic describing climate change impacts is the ‘social cost of carbon dioxide’ (SCCO _2 ), the projected cost to society of releasing an additional tonne of CO _2 . Cost-benefit integrated assessment models that estimate the SCCO _2 lack robust representations of climate feedbacks, economy feedbacks, and climate extremes. We compare the PAGE-ICE model with the decade older PAGE09 and find that PAGE-ICE yields SCCO _2 values about two times higher, because of its climate and economic updates. Climate feedbacks only account for a relatively minor increase compared to other updates. Extending PAGE-ICE with economy feedbacks demonstrates a manifold increase in the SCCO _2 resulting from an empirically derived estimate of partially persistent economic damages. Both the economy feedbacks and other increases since PAGE09 are almost entirely due to higher damages in the Global South. Including an estimate of interannual temperature variability increases the width of the SCCO _2 distribution, with particularly strong effects in the tails and a slight increase in the mean SCCO _2 . Our results highlight the large impacts of climate change if future adaptation does not exceed historical trends. Robust quantification of climate-economy feedbacks and climate extremes are demonstrated to be essential for estimating the SCCO _2 and its uncertainty.
The social cost of carbon dioxide under climate-economy feedbacks and temperature variability
A key statistic describing climate change impacts is the ‘social cost of carbon dioxide’ (SCCO _2 ), the projected cost to society of releasing an additional tonne of CO _2 . Cost-benefit integrated assessment models that estimate the SCCO _2 lack robust representations of climate feedbacks, economy feedbacks, and climate extremes. We compare the PAGE-ICE model with the decade older PAGE09 and find that PAGE-ICE yields SCCO _2 values about two times higher, because of its climate and economic updates. Climate feedbacks only account for a relatively minor increase compared to other updates. Extending PAGE-ICE with economy feedbacks demonstrates a manifold increase in the SCCO _2 resulting from an empirically derived estimate of partially persistent economic damages. Both the economy feedbacks and other increases since PAGE09 are almost entirely due to higher damages in the Global South. Including an estimate of interannual temperature variability increases the width of the SCCO _2 distribution, with particularly strong effects in the tails and a slight increase in the mean SCCO _2 . Our results highlight the large impacts of climate change if future adaptation does not exceed historical trends. Robust quantification of climate-economy feedbacks and climate extremes are demonstrated to be essential for estimating the SCCO _2 and its uncertainty.
The social cost of carbon dioxide under climate-economy feedbacks and temperature variability
Jarmo S Kikstra (Autor:in) / Paul Waidelich (Autor:in) / James Rising (Autor:in) / Dmitry Yumashev (Autor:in) / Chris Hope (Autor:in) / Chris M Brierley (Autor:in)
2021
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
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