Severe Climate Change Costs Forecast for Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Tennessee, North Dakota

[DogPoundPup]

Source: Ascribe newswire

COLLEGE PARK, Md., Sept. 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- The economic impact of climate change will cost a number of U.S. states billions of dollars, and delaying action will raise the price tag, concludes the latest series of reports produced by the University of Maryland's Center for Integrative Environmental Research (CIER).

The new reports project specific long-term direct and ripple economic effects on North Carolina, North Dakota, Pennsylvania and Tennessee. In most cases, the price tag could run into billions of dollars.

The studies combine existing data with new analysis and have been conducted by CIER in conjunction with the National Conference of State Legislators. Last July they released similar studies on Colorado, Georgia, Kansas, Illinois, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey and Ohio. See http://www.newsdesk.umd.edu/uniini/release.cfm?ArticleID=1700

"State and local communities would do well to prepare for a cascade of impacts on many of their most basic systems and services," says Matthias Ruth, principal investigator and director of the Center for Integrative Environmental Research at the University of Maryland. "From sewers to aquifers, highways and health systems, climate change will rewrite communities' infrastructure needs. Quick action will be expensive, but delayed action will cost even more."

Last year, Ruth conducted a similar nationwide analysis and concluded that the total economic cost of climate change in the United States will be major and affect all regions, though the cost remains uncounted, unplanned for and largely hidden in public debate. See http://www.newsdesk.umd.edu/sociss/release.cfm?ArticleID=1521

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[Dover]

1. Well that's unfortunate. Our government has decided to put it's money into other national projects

like bailing out insolvent privately owned financial companies that are so unpromising as investments that they couldn't even be sold on an international market at fire sale prices.

We have our priorities straight. :patriot:

:eyes:

[Nihil]

3. You got it in one!

If only the "deciders" would go down to the affected rural areas,
preferably in the company of the overpaid pigs being "rescued",
and explain why the priorities are the way that they are ...

I'm sure that everyone would understand ...

:nuke:

[Uncle Joe]

2. Kicked and must read.

Thanks for the thread, DogPoundPup.