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A study predicted huge climate damages. But it had a fatal flaw: Uzbekistan.

The Washington Post · last updated

A year ago, a paper published in the journal Nature made a sweeping claim: The world economy was already on track to lose 19 percent of global gross domestic product by 2050, compared with what it would have been without climate change. By 2100, under a high emissions scenario, it predicted that global GDP would be roughly 62 percent lower than without climate change.

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