claim: A recent Nature study expecting more severe hurricanes from global warming still found that damages would halve from 0.04 per cent to 0.02 per cent of global GDP, because the increased ferocity would be more than made up by increased prosperity and resilience.
evidence: ( 2001 ) projected losses in world GDP for a medium increase in global mean temperature ( above 2–3 °C relative to the 1990 temperature level ), with increasing losses for greater temperature increases.