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Florida and Texas are expected to take the biggest economic hit from climate change
Market Watch ^ | April 24, 2018 | By Ciara Linnane

Posted on 04/24/2018 1:26:28 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Florida and Texas are the two states expected to suffer the greatest economic damage from climate change, according to a new study from Science magazine.

The study used a model that aimed to calculate the future impact on each state’s gross domestic product (GDP) from events including hurricanes, storm surges, changes in agricultural yields, changing electricity demands, changes in mortality rates, changes to the labor supply, rising sea levels and rising crime rates.

The study comes amid a concerted effort by climate activists to help the U.S. meet the goals of the Paris Accord of limiting temperature change to below 2 degrees Celsius by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. That goal has been put at risk by President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the U.S. from the treaty.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climatechange; fakescience; globalwarming; goebbelswarming; gorebullwarming; hoax; junkscience; politicalscience; propaganda; socialism
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Living here in North Dakota, I’m cheering on “climate change”. I’m looking forward to owning beachfront property!


21 posted on 04/24/2018 1:47:10 PM PDT by upsdriver
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We are in a solar minimum cycle. It’s a natural cycle. We should be preparing for colder winters and shorter growing seasons.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucedorminey/2014/01/20/sun-flatlining-into-grand-minimum-says-solar-physicist/#1a2729d418de

I’m tired of hearing about globull warming. The warmists need to put a sock in it and wake up!


22 posted on 04/24/2018 1:48:02 PM PDT by sneakers (It's not the democraTIC party! It's the demoCRAT party!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The economic hit would be from democrats destroying their economies through high taxation and regulation. Climate change my ass.
Or their .
23 posted on 04/24/2018 1:48:20 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Despite all this hysterical nonsense about what Americans have to do to avoid catastrophe, US greenhouse gas emissions have dropped back to about where they were in 1995 and are projected to continue dropping without any massive government tax and regulation program. Just let Capitalism take its course.


24 posted on 04/24/2018 1:50:16 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Models of economics based on models of weather based on models of climate change.

All based on dubious, unproved assumptions with no validation of the models used.

Hard to believe people take this nonsense seriously.

But, if it can be sold, the potential profits for those selling it include honors, and trillions of dollars to be redistributed.

Even more so, they include the power to direct nearly all of human affairs.


25 posted on 04/24/2018 1:50:36 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: TLI
I'm in the Southeast and have much the same problem, have been needing to run the heat for an extra 4-6 weeks this year. Will raise my gas bill a fair bit - usually the heat has long since been shut off.

This week ain't looking good either, neither is the first part of next week.

Global Warming, my behind.

26 posted on 04/24/2018 1:53:03 PM PDT by wbill
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To: libertylover
According to them, we’re already dead.

They predicted that our average life expectancy would be 42.

I attribute my longevity to clean living. And, 12-year-old Scotch.

27 posted on 04/24/2018 1:55:53 PM PDT by wbill
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Nice cherrypicking they did there.


28 posted on 04/24/2018 1:57:02 PM PDT by setha (Resume where Pershing left off.)
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To: Cowboy Bob
"Who pays for these studies?"

Science Mag wants $15 to get the paper. I found it available for free at Princeton University here. In Acknowledgements, they write: This research was funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, Skoll Global Threats Fund, and by a nonpartisan grant awarded jointly by Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Office of Hank Paulson, and Next Generation. The methodology and results presented represent the views of the authors and are fully independent of the granting organizations. They further acknowledge: The analysis contained in this research article was conducted independently of any commercial work and was not influenced by clients of either organization.

"This analysis was produced by the Climate Impact Lab, a consortium of researchers from UC Berkeley, Rutgers, University of Chicago, and Rhodium Group, along with our research partners at Princeton University and RMS."

Climate Impact Lab -- The Climate Impact Lab team combines experts from the University of California, Berkeley, the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC), Rhodium Group, and Rutgers University. EPIC provides core financial and administrative support for the Lab. Other support for the Lab has been provided by: Mac and Leslie McQuown; David G. Booth, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, MBA’71; Stuart Goode; Matt Mackowski; the National Science Foundation; the Skoll Global Threats Fund; the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; and the Tata Centre for Development. The Climate Impact Lab is a unique collaboration of 30 climate scientists, economists, computational experts, researchers, analysts, and students from some of the nation’s leading research institutions.

RMS -- "The World's Leading Catastrophe Risk Modeling Company." Rhodium Group -- Rhodium produces pathbreaking public studies on critical economic and policy trends - providing a foundation for commercial analytic and advisory services to the corporate, financial, government, philanthropic and non-profit sectors. Rhodium Group has decades of experience advising CEOs, portfolio managers, philanthropists and policy leaders. In addition to our stand-alone analyses, we maintain long-standing collaborations with leading think-tanks and universities in the United States, Asia, and Europe. Our work is regularly cited by media and government bodies, and consulted by firms, investors and policymakers worldwide. Key areas of Rhodium expertise include Chinese economic, social and political development, energy and climate change, India’s emergence as a global player and advanced economy restructuring.

The short answer: The usual suspects. Federal Government and radical leftist foundations and individuals.

29 posted on 04/24/2018 1:58:54 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: txrefugee

I’m in DFW, and have only used the AC for a couple of days, but only because of humidity, not the heat.


30 posted on 04/24/2018 2:00:19 PM PDT by fwdude (History has no 'sides;' you're thinking of geometry.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

translation: You are ALL GONNA DIE you STOOOOOOPID STOOOOOOPID STOOOOOOPID Red-Staters!!!!!!!!


31 posted on 04/24/2018 2:05:47 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.

Rahm Emanuel

Consider the source I say....

Serious all right, seriously nuts!


32 posted on 04/24/2018 2:13:06 PM PDT by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Just more global warming/climate change nitwhittery. Yawn!
33 posted on 04/24/2018 2:13:10 PM PDT by Desron13 (Inside every progressive is a petty tyrant straining to break free.)
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To: Eagles6
When real climate change occurs, and it will, it will be in the form of global cooling and total ice and snow cover moving south from the far north.

Everything north of Pittsburgh will be under a lot of ice.

Texas and Florida may indeed be hardest hit, then - by all the Canadians fleeing south.

34 posted on 04/24/2018 2:18:18 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: Eagles6
Come on.

That's what these liberal freaks said would happen back in the 70s with their global cooling crap. I remember everybody talking about the "coming ice age" in college.

Here's what Science magazine said back in Nov. 1969 on the subject:

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35 posted on 04/24/2018 2:22:47 PM PDT by HotHunt
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The sky is falling OH NO!!! Florida and Texas; really? Hate Trump states much?


36 posted on 04/24/2018 2:25:55 PM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We’ll survive. Even thrive.

I guarantee it.


37 posted on 04/24/2018 2:29:37 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I got their Global Warming right here!


38 posted on 04/24/2018 2:34:51 PM PDT by jospehm20
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To: HotHunt

http://www.winningreen.com/site/epage/59549_621.htm


39 posted on 04/24/2018 2:45:03 PM PDT by Eagles6
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The ONLY MAP that REALLY COUNTS:


40 posted on 04/24/2018 2:46:18 PM PDT by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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