CBO’s Approach to Estimating Expected Hurricane Damage: Working Paper 2016-02

Terry Dinan

No 51610, Working Papers from Congressional Budget Office

Abstract: This working paper describes how the Congressional Budget Office estimates the effects of climate change and coastal development on hurricane damage. The estimates themselves are presented in a separate report—Potential Increases in Hurricane Damage in the United States: Implications for the Federal Budget—for three selected future years: 2025, 2050, and 2075. Climate change is projected to increase damage in two ways. First, climate change is projected to result in more frequent high-intensity hurricanes. Second, for any given storm, rising sea levels

JEL-codes: H50 H84 Q54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-06-02
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