WASHINGTON - If global warming continues, economic losses from hurricanes in the United States will become too big even for the richest country in the world to offset, a new big-data-driven analysis has found.
Germany’s Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) has done simulations on a supercomputer of regional economic sectors and supply chains in the United States, to show economic losses from hurricanes intensified by unabated global warming.
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