For Some US Counties, Climate Change Will Be Particularly Costly
County-level annual damages in median scenario for climate during 2080-2099 under business-as-usual emissions trajectory (RCP8.5). Negative damages indicate economic benefits. Map corresponds with Figure 2I in main article. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the June 30, 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by S. Hsiang at University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley, Calif., and colleagues was titled, ‘Estimating economic damage from climate change in the United States.’
Credit: Hsiang, Kopp, Jina, Rising, et al. (Science, 2017)
Because losses are expected to be largest in regions that are already poorer, on average, climate change will tend to increase preexisting inequality in the United States, the authors say. Estimates of climate change damage are central to the design of climate policies.
Inequality of damages in the USA: Range of economic damages per year for groupings of US counties, based on their income (29,000 simulations for each of 3,143 counties). The poorest 10% of counties are the leftmost box plot. The richest 10% are the rightmost box plot. Damages are fraction of county income. White lines are median estimates, boxes show the inner 66% of possible outcomes, outer whiskers are inner 90% of possible outcomes. This figure is a simplified version of Figure 5C in the main article.
These results are highlighted in a Perspective by William A. Pizer. Reporters can find the economic damages projected for their county by visiting this site http://globalpolicy.science/econ-damage-climate-change-usa
Explore the ways in which climate change will impact where you live, work and do business. Starting with changes in temperature, this map will expand to include projected social and economic impacts in the weeks and months ahead.
The map shows changes from the norm in temperature in the U.S. at the end of the century.
Source: http://www.ineffableisland.com/2017/06/for-some-us-counties-climate-change.html
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This just in! We are projected to see high temperatures in the Southern states, this SUMMER!!!!
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