$38 trillion.

Climate change will decrease future global average incomes by $38 trillion a year by 2049 according to a new report from Germany’s Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, AP News reports.

While climate change exacerbated natural disasters are expensive, it's the heat itself that is the most expensive because of the hit on crops and worker productivity, AP reports.

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