The American South Will Bear the Worst of Climate Changes Costs
ROBINSON MEYER at the Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/06/global-warming-american-south/532200/
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Across the country’s southern half—and especially in states that border the Gulf of Mexico—climate change could impose the equivalent of a 20-percent tax on county-level income, according to the study. Harvests will dwindle, summer energy costs will soar, rising seas will erase real-estate holdings, and heatwaves will set off epidemics of cardiac and pulmonary disease.
The loss of human life dwarfs all the other economic costs of climate change. Almost every county between El Paso, Texas, and Charlotte, North Carolina, could see their mortality rate rise by more than 20 people out of every 100,000. By comparison, car accidents killed about 11 Americans out of every 100,000 in 2015.
But in the South and Southwest, other damages stack up. Some counties in eastern Texas could see agricultural yields fall by more than 50 percent. West Texas and Arizona may see energy costs rise by 20 percent.
Simultaneously, the study finds that some regions may reap moderate economic benefits from global warming. New England, the Pacific Northwest, and the Great Lake states may all prosper as growing seasons lengthen, and the number of frigid, deadly winter days decrease. In the most optimistic scenarios, some counties could see their incomes rise by 10 percent by the middle of the century.
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More death. The GOP like the death don't they. I guess they are thinking about medicare costs and things like less labour needed as corporations use robots. The rich can move the poor will fry.
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I must have played Night Train 1000 times.
And we cannot be assured our own domestic U.S. citizen climate change refugees will be treated kindly.
The Okies of the Great Depression and Dust Bowl were not.
I think Canada is likely to become as hostile to U.S.A. climate change refugees as Trump U.S.A. is hostile to Mexican and Latin American immigrants.
I'd like to be wrong.