Hidden Costs Of Climate Change Running Hundreds Of Billions A

And yet this does not include this past months’ three major hurricanes or 76 wildfires in nine Western states. Those economic losses alone are estimated to top $300 billion, the report notes. Putting it in perspective, $300 billion is enough money to provide free tuition for the 13.5 million U.S. students enrolled in public colleges and universities for four years.

When climate change starts effecting the bottom line, will that make some of these holdout corporations sit up and take notice?