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Higher costs of climate change

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An attempt to reconcile the effects of temperature on economic productivity at the micro and macro levels produces predictions of global economic losses due to climate change that are much higher than previous estimates. See Letter p.235

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Figure 1: Dry fields in Shanxi province, northern China.

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Sterner, T. Higher costs of climate change. Nature 527, 177–178 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature15643

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