I agree with your overall idea — but this statistic is wildly, wildly wrong.

The GDP of the entire world is only about $80 trillion. What you’re saying is that each year between 2010 and 2018, there was more damage done to the United States alone than the value of all the world’s goods and services put together!

Another way to say this is that each American’s share of climate change damage to the US was over $2 million…

For example, Katrina was the most expensive natural disaster in US history, and one which cost almost $200 billion dollars — a huge amount. But in order to get to your $82 trillion a year damages, the US would have had to have 400 Katrinas each and every year.

The actual numbers look like they’re much less than one-hundredth of the number you quote.

Climate change is a huge problem and one we’re not addressing anywhere near adequately — but by quoting numbers that are obviously off by orders of magnitude, you are working against a solution. Rational people will look at your massive, crazy numbers and say, “These numbers are obviously false,” and how far is it from that to “Climate change is obviously false”?