Posted on 08/23/2017 7:18:49 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
States and localities across the U.S. are already experiencing profound weather shifts associated with climate change, from rising sea levels and flooding to drought and dangerously hot summers. Economists have long been warning that these changes will come with a cost. But until now, there’s been no measure of what that cost might be.
A study published in the journal Science in June is the most extensive model available of what climate change could cost the United States, county by county. The study is the first of its kind, linking climate projections with economic effects like mortality, labor productivity, energy demand and crop yields.
According to the study, the American South and lower Midwest will bear the brunt of the economic costs associated with climate change through the end of the century.
“It turns out that the areas that are preferentially harmed by warming are also areas that tend to be poorer on the whole,” says Robert Kopp, a lead author of the study.
In the worst-case-scenario modeled by the researchers, temperatures could increase by up to 10 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century. If that happens, the poorest counties in the country could be hit with anywhere from 2 to 20 percent income loss. Such a loss would hurt the workers and the local governments that rely on their income tax revenue, and would exacerbate income inequality in the country.
But other experts have pointed out that the study could actually have underestimated some damages. For example, an unexpectedly rapid disintegration of the ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland would drastically worsen economic effects along the East and West coasts.
Still, the study provides a valuable blueprint for local governments and citizens to avoid, or at least plan for, the negative economic effects of climate change.
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No county is better off? Not even northern counties of Minnesota and Michigan than may have longer growing seasons?
The richest counties are the ones surrounding the Beltway.
Works for me.
Well, that was persuasive.
The article actually had a chart!
;-)
I ran similar numbers on eco-doomsday while writing a pro nuclear energy book called “Yucca Mountain Blueprint”. Now I don’t believe the global warming baloney, but just for kicks I figured America could save $8 QUADRILLION dollars by 2100 going all nuclear and saving us from the scourge of global warming.
Droughts AND floods. Is there anything that climate change CAN’T do? /sarc
10 degrees? That’s a new one.
Blows no good
I believe the climate “experts” have some sort of pathological mutation to their DNA which has degraded their logic-and-reason centers in their damaged brains. What tripe. Who stole money from taxpayers to give these idiots grants? What a scam.
Back up that truck full of manure.
This is Science?
According to these Luddites the earth is a teakettle being boiled away by stupid humans. I had this argument with a global warming scientist recently. I asked her why the ants were not doing more damage than humans. In sheer biomass ants are far more prevalent and shape their environment for their own convenience just like humans.
She replied, “they are part of nature.” When I asked her where humans came from if not nature, she was stumped. I suggested “God, just like the ants,” but she would have none of it.
That’s the biggest pile of Algore I have ever read.
Every time they say “climate science” we should correct them and say “climate astrology.”
Yeah, like the last Ice Age, which created much of the geography of the US...
Here in the Phoenix area when we had the partial eclipse the other day, the temperature went from right around 100 to 92 in a matter of minutes while the sun was partially blocked.
Maybe these “scientists” can come up with a fancy chart for that.
Or maybe, as you say, the intensity of the sun (and solar flares) might just cause temperatures to fluctuate?
The assertion that States and localities across the U.S. are already experiencing substantial weather shifts is profound and unsupported.
By playing with the assumptions, data, and methodology you can produce any result you have been paid to support.
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