Headline: Mediaite, 4/27/2023
“In terms of excess deaths, a warming globe’s actually beneficial. In my own state your study shows that we’d have a reduction in mortality of somewhere between 54 and 56 people per, I guess, a hundred thousand. Why wouldn’t we take comfort in that?” Johnson asked University of Chicago economics professor Michael Greenstone.
“So thanks for the question Sen. Johnson and what the work shows in the chart is that the effects of climate change are going to be very unequal and, absolutely, Wisconsin, Chicago, where I live, the reduction in cold days, the benefits from that will outweigh the damages from the hot days,” Greenstone politely replied.
“But if you look more carefully at that, there’s large swatches of the country where the damages will be much larger. And in fact, they get,” Greenstone continued as Johnson cut him off. [emphasis added]
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