Vince Tidwell of Sandia National Laboratories and NM EPSCoR has co-authored a report and climate risk assessment titled, Assessing the Near-Term Risk of Climate Uncertainty: Interdependencies among the U.S. States. The study, which was initially published last year, has gained new attention from climate blogs and independent organizations for its findings which show that climate change will indeed run the risk of negatively impacting the U.S. economy.

"Policy makers will most likely need to make decisions about climate policy before climate scientists have resolved all relevant uncertainties about the impacts of climate change. This study demonstrates a risk-assessment methodology for evaluating uncertain future climatic conditions... We estimate the impacts from responses to climate change on U.S. state- and national-level economic activity from 2010 to 2050.We show that the mean or average risk of damage to the U.S. economy from climate change, at the national level, is on the order of $1 trillion over the next 40 years, with losses in employment equivalent to nearly 7 million full-time jobs."

The report has been recently featured on the blog Climate Progress, and the magazine Science Progress. Read the full report in PDF format here.