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the reason why the so-called hidden costs of climate change are so important are in part because they're often subtle
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and hard to notice but the data increasingly suggests they're quite pervasive so whether that's things like
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how temperature affects worker productivity or safety and health on the job or even something like cognitive
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performance at work or in school there's increasingly evidence to suggests that
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even a so-called non-catastrophic warming scenario even a little bit of warming can adversely affect the
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economic Machinery of our day-to-day lives uh in important ways and so I think it's important that we both as
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decision makers and as a public at large become more familiar with these hidden costs if we're going to make better
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practical decisions about what to do about climate change both in terms of you know mitigating emissions toward a
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clean energy future but also in terms of adapting social and economic systems to
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the warming