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Climate change threatens to cause trillions in damage to world's coastal regions

2014-02-05 09:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

TG Daily: New research predicts that coastal regions may face massive increases in damages from storm surge flooding over the course of the 21st century. According to the study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, global average storm surge damages could increase from about $10-$40 billion per year today to up to $100,000 billion per year by the end of century, if no adaptation action is taken. The study, led by the Berlin-based think-tank Global Climate Forum (GCF) and involving...

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