Federal study contradicts Trump on climate change, warns the Southeast will be hardest hit

[KelleyKramer]

Federal study contradicts Trump on climate change, warns the Southeast will be hardest hit

Climate change is coming for Trump voters

https://thinkprogress.org/gao-warns-climate-economy-e6a9d3b86515/?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=59f0053b04d30105ee6b016c&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter

?resize=1280%2C720px&ssl=1

A major new federal report concludes that climate change impacts already cost the federal government and U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars a year and that the costs will continue to mount.

In short, Congress’s own top watchdog agency — “the supreme audit institution of the federal government,” as Wikipedia describes the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) — just contradicted the entire premise of the climate policy of Donald Trump and the GOP Congress, which is to undermine domestic and global action.

The news is especially bad for regions that favored President Donald Trump in the election. The report from the non-partisan GAO warns, “The Southeast likely faces greater effects than other regions because of coastal property damages.”

It’s doubtful that any state will benefit from the worst-case scenarios of climate change that Trump’s policies would lead to, but the GAO is certainly correct that climate change poses an existential risk to the Southeast (and Texas) — places that voted for Trump and repeatedly elect climate deniers to Congress.


More at the link

https://thinkprogress.org/gao-warns-climate-economy-e6a9d3b86515/?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=59f0053b04d30105ee6b016c&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter


.

[democratisphere]

1. Mar-a-Lago disappears under the water waves.

[nitpicker]

2. Link to the GAO links to summary and report

http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-17-720

[nitpicker]

3. It's not just the ocean coastlines

I keep hearing on weather radio flood advisories for Annapolis MD, DC, etc.

It's not just a few times a year anymore.

[raccoon]

4. I guess God is pissed off at those states for voting for Trump. LOL NT

[Achilleaze]

5. Still the republicans PERSISTED in their dangerous lies to Americans...

...and to the world.

republicans: Just plain willfully ignorant of obvious facts? Astute, but greedy to the core? Or just sold out to the Dark Side?

Perplexing. Deplorable. Dangerous.