28 December, 2019

Rise In Climate-Related Deaths Will Surpass All Infectious Diseases, Economist Testifies

More people will die from climate-driven temperature changes in 2100 than the number who die today from all infectious diseases combined, a leading economist told members of Congress last week.
Portrait of Michael Greenstone
Michael Greenstone, the Milton Friedman professor
of Economics at the University of Chicago. 

Michael Greenstone is the Milton Friedman Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago and the co-director of the Climate Impact Lab (CIL), a collaboration of climate scientists, economists, computational experts, researchers and analysts at multiple universities who are working to establish a precise data-driven estimate of the impact of the climate crisis.


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