“Social cost of carbon” almost double what government previously thought

Figures will allow government agencies to better calulate climate change's economic impact when considering regulations.

from ThinkProgress

"The U.S. government updated its estimate of how much carbon pollution harms the economy. They found that their previous estimated costs were too low — ranging from 50 to 100 percent depending on the year and the estimate.

"An interagency working group coordinated by the White House released something called the 'Technical Update of the Social Cost of Carbon for Regulatory Impact Analysis' which is a complicated way of saying that when an agency calculates the economic costs and benefits of a regulation, it now has numbers that reflect more of the true economic impacts of climate change.

"This important number has something to do with everything from the proposed Keystone pipeline to what the Obama administration does about climate change to the common microwave. …"

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