WRITTEN BY ROGER PIELKE JR. ON APR 24, 2023. POSTED IN LATEST NEWS
How The EPA Is Using Extreme Scenarios To Produce Extreme Results To Craft Policy
Later this week the Senate Budget Committee will hold a hearing on “the health costs of climate change.” …
Projections of the future climate and its possible impacts on human health require the use of scenarios of the future — these scenarios underpin both (a) projections made by earth system models for variables such as future extreme temperatures and (b) projections made by integrated assessment and economic models for variables such as human mortality and associated damage. [emphasis, links added]
Such projections typically identify the effects of extremely high temperatures on human mortality as the most significant human health impact of climate change.
https://climatechangedispatch.com/how-the-epa-is-using-extreme-scenarios-to-produce-extreme-results-to-craft-policy/
