Many scientists have linked the increasing severity of natural disasters to climate change. The statement, which went so far as to highlight dubiously positive effects of rising global temperatures, poses a potential hurdle for future legislation to curb surging greenhouse gas emissions, experts said, and amounts to textbook climate change denial. A recent Congressional Budget Office report minimized the effects of climate change on the economy. Of that, he found $2.25 trillion (about $107 billion per year) could be attributed to climate change. That sum is up from $900 billion ($45 billion per year) from 1978 to 1997.

Source: Huffington Post December 20, 2018 10:46 UTC