Posted on 07/24/2017 11:51:46 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
A widening wealth gap, an overheated Central Valley and a rising violent crime rate are all at stake in California as the planet warms up, according to a recent study by campus researchers.
The study, published in Science magazine late June, provides a tangible way for the public to see the national effects of climate change through measures such as GDP, mortality rates and coastal storms.
According to the study, an average increase in global temperature of one degree Celsius — or 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit — is expected to drop the country’s GDP by 1.2 percent. In California, the number is lower — the state will lose about 0.3 percent of annual output.
The state, however, will not be uniformly affected. In fact, according to data released by the Climate Impact Lab, some counties in California will actually benefit economically from the change.
California’s climate and economic diversity make the state a good representation of the United States as a whole. National trends such as an exacerbation of the income gap — where hot and poor communities get hotter and poorer, and wealthier, cooler communities like those along the coast lose less — are present on the golden state map, according to James Rising, a former postdoctoral fellow with the campus Energy and Resources Group.
“The areas that are poor in the US are the ones that are going to be the most impacted. In the US, the South is hotter and poorer, whereas the North is colder and richer,” Rising said. “How clear the relationship is there was really surprising to us.”
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Science?
Heck NO!
They apparently need don’t need no stinkin’ Science anymore.
Yeah, I'd call BS like this "surprising", too.
BTW, I live in the south. Generally, it's been cooler here over the past decade or more. Right this minute, my area is booming; you can't throw a rock without hitting new construction or a 'now hiring' sign. I blame Trump, because pre-November 2016, things here were barely breaking even.
The climate gods are very powerful. They will punish a sinful and wicked mankind with fire and a thousand other admonishments - including higher insurance rates and smaller strawberries from Watsonville.
True science is dead, when the maxim that correlation is not causation is dead in “scientific” studies.
Now doubt the predictions in this recent study depend on even worse fact-fudging and flaws in the “models” they used.
The North is farther away from Mexico and rich, the South is closer and poor. Build the wall!
If they were honest, these climate change researchers should show the real economic impact - pictures of their houses, cars, wardrobes, and portfolios.
The only economic impact is the hundreds of phony stories, reports and studies which have generated so much attention.
The only economic impact is the hundreds of phony stories, reports and studies which have generated so much attention.
It gets crazier and crazier. Yesterday afternoon I drove through Montecito, CA, where Al Gore has his 45,000 square foot, 27.5 acre mansion perched only a bit above the Pacific coastline. He must have had a really bad real estate agent to situate him so close to the ocean since all this human-caused heat is bound to raise the Pacific’s levels to unimaginable heights. I guess he’s a good swimmer or maybe he’s counting on all his blubber to float him to safety.
Speaking of propaganda, how about a Phoenix and Detroit comparison. Apparently you North South comparison bird brains couldn’t find your rear end with both hands. Lots of rich people in Phoenix. Used to be lots of rich people in Detroit. Temperature didn’t have damn thing to do with it.
...and if you need to do another “study” how about one on the rust belt, vs the new South. You Jackeye couldn’t get it right no matter what you were “studying”.
“Recent study by UC Berkeley researchers reveals economic effects of climate change”
ZERO
I’ve seen some major economic effects of climate change. For example, when the climate changes from winter to summer all of those guys in their beat up trucks with snow plows on the front hocking their services door to door (well, driveway to driveway) disappear. What’s really weird is they all seem to return around late November or early December. Where do they all go and how do they and their families possibly survive half the year without work? /s
Yeah. Capitalism will never work as we will need a tightly controlled socialist economy under the direction of our betters and much tighter controls on individual expression.
As a side note to global warming alarmism, please consider the following.
If I remember to do this …
On Mon, Aug. 21, 2017, first I’m going to note predicted middle-of-eclipse outdoor temperatures before the eclipse. Then I’m going to try to take before, middle, after temperatures readings with respect to eclipse.
I’m curious how much actual outdoor temperature may fall short of predicted middle-of-eclipse temperatures. (I doubt temperature predictions would include possible eclipse dip if such a dip would be noticeable anyway.)
Waste of time?
Insights, suggestions welcome.
Now if we only had some real evidence of actual warming this might be worth a read.
Beware the “Maunder Minimum”
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