Figure 15.2

Opinions of various experts on the impact of 3°C of warming by the year 2090 as a percentage loss of gross world product. Each respondent's best guess of impacts is shown as the 50th percentile. Chart reprinted with permission, W. D. Nordhaus, Expert Opinion on Climatic Change, American Scientist, Jan-Feb 1994, 82 :45-51, 1994.


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