Axios: “Climate change catastrophes need greater study”

By Andrew Freedman

The intrigue: Gernot Wagner, a climate economist at Columbia Business School who was not part of the author team, said he agrees that more research is needed into these issues.

  • “Even linear changes in underlying climate conditions can lead to socio-economic tipping points,” he said, citing the example of the drought in Syria in 2007-2010 that helped spark the civil war there, spurring a refugee crisis that in turn led to a rightward shift in European politics.
  • “Cascading risks deserve quite a bit more attention,” he said.

Quoted in: “Climate change catastrophes need greater study, scientists warn” by Andrew Freedman, Axios (3 August 2022).

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