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One of the world's 'Big Four' accounting firms released a report this week concluding that extreme, "business-as-usual" climate change will benefit a third of the world's economies over the course of the 21st century.
Published online in Czech, the analysis from Deloitte's Prague office said that countries in colder latitudes such as Canada, Norway and Russia "should benefit the most from rising temperatures."
The Czech Republic's GDP, for example, would likely rise 25 percent by 2100 "in the fastest warming scenarios," according to a summary of the report.
The findings -- based on the relationship between average annual temperatures and GDP -- fly in the face of most research on the long-term economic impacts of climate change.
Recent studies in peer-reviewed journals show the world economy taking a huge hit from global warming by century's end, shrinking up to 20 percent by 2100 if greenhouse gases continue unabated.
In a more conservative estimate, the IMF said last year that per capita GDP would drop more than seven percent.
"Calculating the effects of climate change purely on the basis of changes in mean temperature or rainfall altering GDP is naive and misleading," said Tim Lenton, a professor at the Global System Institute at the University of Exeter, commenting on the Deloitte report.
"Climate change is the most profound risk management problem humanity has ever faced."
- 'Perfectly insane' -
Gernot Wagner, an associate professor in climate economics at New York University, said the big risks from global warming come from extreme weather events such as heatwaves and flooding, not changes in average temperature.
"This is an example of a seemingly logical 'study' that is also perfectly insane," he said.
'Big Four' accounting firm sees upside to climate change
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/big-four-accounting-firm-sees-222334060.html