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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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