{"id":219582,"date":"2025-08-07T08:03:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T13:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/major-climate-gdp-study-under-review-after-facing-challenge"},"modified":"2025-08-07T08:03:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T13:03:05","slug":"major-climate-gdp-study-under-review-after-facing-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/major-climate-gdp-study-under-review-after-facing-challenge","title":{"rendered":"Major climate-GDP study under review after facing challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/major-climate-gdp-study-under-review-after-facing-challenge.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A blockbuster study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-024-07219-0\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in top science journal <i>Nature<\/i> last year warned that unchecked climate change could slash global GDP by a staggering 62% by century\u2019s end, setting off alarm bells among financial institutions worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>But a re-analysis by Stanford University researchers in California, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-025-09320-4\" target=\"_blank\">released Wednesday<\/a>, challenges that conclusion\u2014finding the projected hit to be about three times smaller and broadly in line with earlier estimates, after excluding an anomalous result tied to Uzbekistan.<\/p>\n<p>The saga may culminate in a rare retraction, with <i>Nature<\/i> telling AFP it will have \u201cfurther information to share soon\u201d\u2014a move that would almost certainly be seized upon by climate-change skeptics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A blockbuster study published in top science journal Nature last year warned that unchecked climate change could slash global GDP by a staggering 62% by century\u2019s end, setting off alarm bells among financial institutions worldwide. But a re-analysis by Stanford University researchers in California, released Wednesday, challenges that conclusion\u2014finding the projected hit to be about [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,45,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-finance","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}