Climate change is a complex issue. It's not just about rising temperatures. It's about how these changes play out over time and space. This is where things get tricky. Most models used to figure out the economic impact of climate change don't account for these details. They assume climate change happens evenly and steadily. But that's not how it works in the real wor...

Estimating how much a ton of CO2 costs society, called the social cost of carbon (SCC), is tough. It needs to consider the whole climate and economic system, and how changes spread in time and space. Scientists have looked at the models used to calculate SCC but in bits and pieces. No one has put it all together. So, researchers combined 1, 823 SCC estimates from 147...