{"id":416458,"date":"2025-12-07T14:54:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T13:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=416458"},"modified":"2025-12-07T14:55:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T13:55:01","slug":"climate-doomsday-prophecy-peddled-by-academia-retracted-in-disgrace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=416458","title":{"rendered":"Climate Doomsday Prophecy Peddled by Academia Retracted in Disgrace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A widely referenced 2024 study that predicted massive\u00a0global economic damages\u00a0due to climate change has now been retracted, The New York Times (NYT) reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nature, widely considered to be a prestigious scientific\u00a0journal, published an\u00a0article<\/a>\u00a0titled \u201cThe economic commitment of climate change\u201d in April 2024,\u00a0which detailed how\u00a0global gross domestic product (GDP) could be roughly 62% lower by 2100 due to\u00a0climate change<\/a>.\u00a0The journal\u2019s decision to retract the study on Wednesday came after some economists\u2019 discovery that data issues in one country, Uzbekistan, had heavily distorted the results,\u00a0according<\/a>\u00a0to the NYT.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(RELATED: Turns Out Major Climate Study Peddled By Media Relied On Bunk Data)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the team of economists recalculated the results excluding Uzbekistan, the projected climate change damages were similar to previous research, and showed that instead of a projected 62% decrease in global economic output by 2100 due to continuing carbon emissions, global GDP would actually have a 23% reduction, the NYT reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When reached for comment, Nature referred the Daily Caller News Foundation to its retraction notice<\/a> from Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Last year, the media breathlessly reported on a study published by Nature that climate change damage could cost $38 trillion per year by 2050.

Nature just retracted the study.

Warning to reporters: If you report on a study published by Nature, there is a good chance it's BS. pic.twitter.com\/eOZ4hY8SK1<\/a><\/p>— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) December 3, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote>