Climate impact map

Using the most comprehensive climate and economic data sets ever compiled, the Climate Impact Lab is estimating the relationship between a changing climate and human well-being across eight categories: human health, labor productivity, energy demand, agriculture, manufacturing, damage to coastal infrastructure, increased social conflict and crime, and altered migration patterns.
Quantifying ECS is challenging because the available evidence consists of diverse strands, none 198 of which is conclusive by itself. This requires that the strands be combined in some way. Yet, 199 because the underlying science spans many disciplines within the Earth Sciences, individual 200 scientists generally only fully understand one or a few of the strands. Moreover, the interpretation 201 of each strand requires structural assumptions that cannot be proven, and sometimes ECS 202 measures have been estimated from each strand that are not fully equivalent. This complexity and 203 uncertainty thwarts rigorous, definitive calculations and gives expert judgment and assumptions a 204 potentially large role.
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