TORNADOES KILLED at least 23 people in Alabama on March 3rd, causing catastrophic damage as winds of up to 270 km per hour ripped apart rural towns in Lee County. Such severe weather events, especially hurricanes and heat waves, are projected to become more intense in the coming decades as the temperature of the earth warms, according to afrom the United States Global Change Research Programme.
A team of climate and economic researchers led by Solomon Hsiang of the University of California, Berkeley, released a report in Science in 2017 that attempted to quantify the economic impact of various levels of warming. Current policies put the world on track to warm by anywhere between three and four degrees Celsius relative to pre-industrial levels. The scientists also examined warming as low as 1.5 degrees or as high as five degrees .
The scientists estimated that three degrees of global warming would cost the median American county 4% of its GDP, relative to what that area would otherwise produce without any additional warming, by the end of the century. This figure would rise to a loss of 6% or more with five degrees of warming, and fall to below 2% if the globe warms by 1.5 degrees or less. The impact on some individual counties could be much larger.
Why is warming likely to exacerbate regional inequality in America? The simplest explanation is that wealth tends to be correlated with latitude. Poor, rural parts of the South and Midwest rely on agriculture, and are already heavily exposed to the impact of heat on energy bills and heat-related mortality and crime. These factors matter far less in northern and western states.
Since predicting Global Warming have been less than successful so far... Maybe 'we' should be more concern about poverty and other suffering today?
Read the book
It’s only four degrees ...
trump ： fake news
Bullocks
Has any global warming scientist ever studied the benefits of climate change?🤔
'Scientists project that the Arctic will be ice-free in the summer of 2013.' - John Kerry, 31 August, 2009
Even the climate alarmists are not predicting that much warming...and their forecasts have been quite bad to date.
CELSIUS....
assuming we sit on our hands and don't do shit adapt to what we cannot change.
lolz
Luckily that won’t happen
Assuming the modeling is accurate. But bc the margins of error increase exponentially each year, and we've had 40 years of ten years to act (proving said error), I dont think this issue is worth the time put into it now.
alllibertynews We're less than 1 degree up since the last warming period... Maybe, since there wasn't a way to accurately measure the temperature then, by today's standards...
Well, who cares? according to socialist dimwit, AOC, we will all be dead in 12 years!
alllibertynews IPCC predicts at the most 2 degrees of warming after 100 years.
Three degrees F or C? In this context it's very important to state your units if you're referring to or from the USA.
Canada looking pretty good here cad
It might increase it by 4%, too. You have no idea which way it’ll go or what you’re talking about.
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