Climate Change Expected to Raise U.S. Wildfire Costs by $10 Billion- $60 Billion per Year in Just Four Decades

Groups issue report of first-ever cost estimates for climate change-magnified wildfires, and urge inclusion in national “social cost of carbon” estimates of the economic impacts of carbon pollution

WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–September 16, 2014 – Climate change could take a serious toll on the U.S. economy by expanding by 50 percent the area that wildfires burn —and raising projected damages by tens of billions of dollars a year by 2050, according to a new economic study released today.