{"478741":{"#nid":"478741","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Economists: Buckle Up, Climate Change Is Going to Be a Rough Ride","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe article for Slate featured perspective by Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts economics professor Juan Moreno-Cruz.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022With just two or three days remaining of official negotiations, the end game has arrived in the Paris climate talks\u2026 A trio of new reports released this week show that whatever happens in Paris, families and countries at the front lines of climate change will likely have their work cut out for them\u2014and together they provide even greater urgency to the negotiations in Paris. In the first report, a group of climate scientists and economists warns that the impacts of climate change could come more quickly and more harshly than predicted, which eventually will remove some incentives to cut emissions. That\u2019s because, once damages from effects like rising sea level reach a \u201csaturation\u201d point\u2014a low-lying country like the Maldives going underwater, for example\u2014vulnerable countries will no longer have reason to argue for restrictions on greenhouse gases because they\u2019ll have nothing left to lose. \u0022We have a relatively small window of opportunity in terms of economic incentives underlying the climate science,\u0022 said\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EJuan Moreno-Cruz\u003C\/strong\u003E, an economist at\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;and a co-author of the report, in a press release. \u0022Once we pass a certain threshold, we won\u0027t be able to go back because we will lose the incentives to do so.\u201d\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27167","created_gmt":"2015-12-14 17:32:49","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:27:52","author":"Rebecca Keane","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"research collaboration","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/moneybox\/2015\/12\/09\/climate_change_has_huge_economic_impacts.html","dateline":{"date":"2015-12-09T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-12-09T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"407321":{"id":"407321","type":"image","title":"Juan Moreno-Cruz","body":null,"created":"1449254168","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:36:08","changed":"1475895132","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:12","alt":"Juan Moreno-Cruz","file":{"fid":"202141","name":"moreno-cruz_juan.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/moreno-cruz_juan_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/moreno-cruz_juan_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":4216745,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/moreno-cruz_juan_0.jpg?itok=pPjk81WP"}}},"media_ids":["407321"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1282","name":"School of Economics"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"107601","name":"Juan Moreno-Cruz"},{"id":"168175","name":"Paris Climate Accord"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}