Your Receipt: $11.20 Per Ton of CO2 Emitted (Wildfire Smoke Mortality, U.S. Only)

ITEM: Premature death via PM2.5 inhalation, contiguous United States, projected 2020–2100. Quantity: 64,000 annually at 3°C warming. Unit price: value of statistical life. SUBTOTAL: $11.20/ton CO2. Applied to existing social cost of carbon, this represents a 74% surcharge.

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Items not scanned: morbidity, cancer, cognitive decline, reproductive damage, psychiatric injury, non-PM2.5 pollutants. Deaths outside U.S. borders not scanned. Rural counties below 20 deaths/year fell under the register's minimum. Firefighters and farmworkers were not in the system.

No returns. Confidence interval includes zero.