By now, astute readers of the “research paper that kills off Climate Change damages” will have noticed the classic Roger Pielke Jr-ism contained within its inner sanctum rationale :-
https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/2010BAMS3092.1
Let’s spell it out :-
What do you get when you compare an exponentially rising trend (economic losses from Climate Change damage) with another two exponentially rising trends (human population growth and economic development), and use the last two to factor away the first ?
That’s right – no trend at all !