{"id":11550,"date":"2025-12-03T13:48:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T13:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/researchers-slightly-lower-studys-estimate-of-drop-in-global-income-due-to-climate-change\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T13:48:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T13:48:39","slug":"researchers-slightly-lower-studys-estimate-of-drop-in-global-income-due-to-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/researchers-slightly-lower-studys-estimate-of-drop-in-global-income-due-to-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers slightly lower study\u2019s estimate of drop in global income due to climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The authors of a study that examined climate change&rsquo;s potential effect on the global economy said Wednesday that data errors led them to slightly overstate an expected drop in income over the next 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers at Germany&rsquo;s Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, writing in the journal Nature in 2024, had forecast a 19% drop in global income by 2050. Their revised analysis puts the figure at 17%.<\/p>\n<p>The authors also said in their original work that there was a 99% chance that, by midcentury, it would cost more to fix damage from climate change than it would cost to build resilience. Their new analysis, not yet peer-reviewed, lowered that figure to 91%.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press reported on the original study. Nature posted a retraction of it Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers cited data inaccuracies in the first paper, particularly with underlying economic data for Uzbekistan between 1995 and 1999 that had a large influence on the results, and that their analysis had underestimated statistical uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p>Max Kotz, one of the study&rsquo;s authors, told the AP that the heart of the study is unchanged: Climate change will be enormously damaging to the world economy if unchecked, and that the impact will hit hardest in the lowest-income areas that contribute the fewest emissions driving the planet&rsquo;s warming. <\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>Gernot Wagner, a climate economist at Columbia Business School who wasn&rsquo;t involved with the research, said the thrust of the Potsdam Institute&rsquo;s work remains the same &ldquo;no matter which part of the range the true figure will be.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Climate change already hits home, quite literally. Home insurance premiums across the U.S. have already seen, in part, a doubling over the past decade alone,&rdquo; Wagner said. &ldquo;Rapidly accumulating climate risks will only make the numbers go up even more.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>Alexa St. John is an Associated Press climate reporter. Follow her on X: @alexa_stjohn. Reach her at ast.john@ap.org.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press&rsquo; climate and environmental coverage receives financial support from multiple private foundations. AP is solely responsible for all content. Find AP&rsquo;s standards for working with philanthropies, a list of supporters and funded coverage areas at AP.org.<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/migrant-acquitted-in-first-trial-over-us-border-military-zones\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">Migrant acquitted in first trial over US border military zones<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>Source<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Researchers slightly lower study&rsquo;s estimate of drop in global income due to climate change<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The authors of a study that examined climate change&rsquo;s potential effect on the global economy said Wednesday that data errors led them to slightly overstate an expected drop in income over the next 25 years. The researchers at Germany&rsquo;s Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, writing in the journal Nature in 2024, had forecast a&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/researchers-slightly-lower-studys-estimate-of-drop-in-global-income-due-to-climate-change\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Researchers slightly lower study\u2019s estimate of drop in global income due to climate change&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}