The economic cost of devastating hurricanes and other extreme weather events is even worse than we thought
- Written by Gary W. Yohe, Huffington Foundation Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies, Wesleyan University
June marks the official start of hurricane season. If recent history is any guide, it will prove to be another destructive year thanks to the worsening impact of climate change.
But beyond more intense hurricanes and explosive wildfires, the warming climate has been blamed for causing a sharp uptick in all types of extreme weather events across...