“A multi-agency effort to nail down the social cost of carbon emissions ignores wrenching climate impacts such as ocean acidification and makes efforts to curb emissions seem disproportionately expensive, economists say” (read the full article at Scientific American)
Then read Ackerman and Stanton’s paper for E3 Network critiquing the government’s interagency report on the social cost of carbon.
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