Climate change will worsen US poverty

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Climate change will worsen US poverty

Postby Blue » Fri Jul 07, 2017 6:56 pm

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July 4, 2017, by Tim Radford

Yet another study has exposed the cruel cost of climate change as it increases US poverty. It could be worse than the Great Recession.

LONDON, 4 July, 2017 – US researchers have calculated the detailed cost of climate change for all of the 3,143 counties in the country. The outlook is bleak, and US poverty is set to grow .

If global warming continues unabated, then near the end of this century the poorest third of the counties in the US could suffer economic damage that could cost up to 20% of their income.

Those counties in the south and southern midwest, already poor and hot, will lose the most. Rising temperatures will also have an impact on property crime, violent crime, agriculture, energy, coastal storms and human mortality.

Every 1°C rise in average temperatures could lift death rates by 5.4 per 100,000 and could cost 1.2% of gross domestic product, according to a new study in the journal Science.


More frequent floods

In 2016 Professor Kopp took a long look at sea level change over the last 3,000 years to confirm the unprecedented nature of sea level rises in the 20th century, and the link with human-driven climate change.

Earlier this year he looked at coastal flood risks around the US to predict that the kind of once-in-a-decade flood observed in cities like Charleston could be 173 times more frequent if fossil fuel emissions continued under the notorious “business as usual” scenario.

Professor Hsiang has repeatedly emphasised the economic and social costs of climate change, and used statistical methods to make the connection between violence and rising temperatures.

This time the 12 researchers from seven institutions took the big data approach. They matched state-of-the-art statistical analysis with 116 climate projections for 15 different kinds of impact and ran 29,000 simulations of the US national economy to measure the real world benefits and costs of climate change at the county level, in terms of farming, crime, health, energy demand, labour and the impact on coastal communities from higher temperature, changing rainfall, rising seas and intensifying hurricanes.


I can personally vouch for how bad these climate extremes are playing out in po folk land. Not good.
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Re: Climate change will worsen US poverty

Postby 82_28 » Fri Jul 07, 2017 7:18 pm

Not to worry. Climate change intelligentsia have weighed in.

Rush Limbaugh calls Stephen Hawking’s climate change warnings ‘meteorological porn’

July 7, 2017

Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh attacked famed physicist Stephen Hawking for warning that the Trump administration's agenda on climate change and the decision to pull out of the Paris Climate Agreement could have long reaching effects on the Earth's climate.

Limbaugh said Wednesday that Hawking's warning amounted to little more than "meteorological porn" and attacked the left, saying that liberals had "dumbed down practically everyone in their ranks."

"The left has so succeeded in dumbing down people that they've even dumbed down themselves," Limbaugh said on his nationally syndicated weekly radio program. "They've dumbed down their professoriat, they've dumbed down their commentariat, they have dumbed down practically everybody in their ranks. They have filled them with paranoia and fear."

Hawking told BBC News Sunday that Trump's actions have severely endangered the Earth, and that, in the long run, the planet was likely to become like Venus, with unlivable temperatures and a poisonous atmosphere.

"We are close to the tipping point where global warming becomes irreversible. Trump's action could push the Earth over the brink, to become like Venus, with a temperature of two hundred and fifty degrees, and raining sulphuric acid," Hawking said.

Hawking responded to the Trump administration's decision to pull out of the Paris Climate Agreement and said that "climate change is the greatest danger we face."

"Climate change is one of the great dangers we face, and it's one we can prevent if we act now. By denying the evidence for climate change, and pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement, Donald Trump will cause avoidable environmental damage to our beautiful planet, endangering the natural world, for us and our children," Hawking said.

Limbaugh disagreed with the physicist, saying that it was "insanity" and pointed to previous claims Hawking has made about colonizing on an asteroid or the moon.

Hawking reasserted his opinion about colonizing space during the BBC interview. He said that the best chance for mankind is colonizing in space due to the escalating conflicts and weapons of mass destruction.

"I fear evolution has inbuilt greed and aggression to the human genome. There is no sign of conflict lessening, and the development of militarized technology and weapons of mass destruction could make that disastrous. The best hope for the survival of the human race might be independent colonies in space," Hawking said.

Limbaugh also lamented the fact that grade school science teachers take Hawking as an "irrefutable" source.

"This is insane. But I’ll guaran-damn-tee you that every science teacher in America believes it, junior high, middle school, whatever you call it, grade school. I'll bet you when they see stuff like this, Stephen Hawking is like Bill Nye the Science Guy. He's an irrefutable source to these people,"
Limbaugh said.


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Re: Climate change will worsen US poverty

Postby Blue » Fri Jul 07, 2017 7:52 pm

Rush is still alive? Geezus after all the oxycontin, cigars and bordeaux, thought he'd a kicked by now. Can't understand how he poisoned so many people, including family members...who listened while they worked.
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