New analysis pegs cost of thawing permafrost to global economy at $43 trillion by 2200
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"New analysis pegs cost of thawing permafrost to global economy at $43 trillion by 2200" — Arctic Newswire — September 21, 2015
Permafrost may be mostly invisible underground, but the consequences of its thawing will be anything but. That's according to a new study that calculates the global economy could lose as much as $43 trillion by the end of the next century due to greenhouse gas emissions from thawing permafrost -- a figure much worse than previously thought.
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