While the IMF's figures are eyewateringly large, they are, if anything, conservative because they are based on low estimates of the costs of climate change from the US government, which tends to omit many of the largest risks.
Some of them contend that reconstruction money should be tightly coupled with requirements that coastal communities begin reducing their vulnerability in the short run and that towns along shorelines facing the largest risks make plans for withdrawal over the long term.
Several studies have highlighted that one of the largest risks with cellulosic biorefinery investments are year-to-year variability in cellulosic biomass quantity available.
We identify these hotspots for largest growing stocks, largest peat areas, and, e.g. largest risks for loss of carbon due to fire or urban sprawl.
He adds that one of the largest risks associated with a Bush loss is whether the Administration's tax cuts would become permanent.
A better outlook for defaults diminishes one of the largest risks to bond buyers, an ever-expanding group that includes pension funds, corporate treasurers and average workers saving for retirement.
Those banks and financial institutions that took on the largest risks and performed worst were rewarded with billions in taxpayer dollars, allowing them to survive and compete with their better-managed peers.
In coffee, the largest risks are incurred for those at the bottom of the value chain.
At 26 weeks, the largest risks are with fluvastatin RR 33.3 (95% CI 16.8 66.0) and ciprofibrate (with previous statin use) RR 40.5 (95% CI 13.4 122.0).
Using the READ code analyses (THIN), largest risks were associated with the term "muscular rheumatism" and "fibrositis unspecified" RR 22.3 (95% CI 6.8 72.6) and 29.1 (95% CI 15.2 56.1) respectively (part of composite RR given in Table 5).
Other parents may try to protect themselves psychologically by blocking out the largest risks.
