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Top Journal Retracts Study Predicting Catastrophic Climate Toll
- pinewurst 11mo agohttps://archive.ph/xPlyL https://archive.ph/xPlyL
- hedora 11mo agoHow did Uzbekistan increase their model’s global economic loss from 20% to 60%? I really want to know what arithmetic error was made, and how it got past peer review. Did it predict a China-size negative output in the future, or assume a current China-size economic output for that county? (Having said that, 60% loss by 2100 seems completely plausible to me, and 20% sounds like wishful thinking. Big chunks of the US southwest have obviously lost more than 20% of their economies to climate change since 2000…)