Keith Kozloff is a former senior environmental economist at the U.S. Treasury Department.
President Trump’s climate inaction sells the future short
In the cacophony of bad climate stories recently, you’d be forgiven for missing the news that one casualty of Trump’s order was the social cost of carbon (SCC), a measure that’s been called “the most important number you’ve never heard of.” The SCC captures the estimated costs of climate disruption from things like sea-level rise, storms, fires, crop failures and rising death rates.
April 22, 2017