Posted on 01/30/2019 8:43:34 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The bulk of the economic burden resulting from climate change in the United States this century will fall on Republican strongholds where politicians have traditionally opposed policies to curb greenhouse gases. And as the impacts mount, they could potentially alter the political dynamics, says an analysis released on 29 January by the Brookings Institution, a think tank in Washington DC.
Researchers compared the projected economic impacts of global warming by the end of the century - including changes in mortality, agricultural yields and coastal damage driven by extreme weather and rising seas, for example - to recent voting patterns across the United States.
They found that vast swaths of the Republican-leaning southwest and southeast could see economic losses of 10-28% by the end of the century. Meanwhile, northern regions that include many Democratic-voting states, will experience fewer impacts and could even benefit from some of the results of climate change, including increases in agricultural yields.
All told, 15 of the 16 states with the most to lose economically from global warming voted for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in 2016, according to the analysis. Trump’s administration has worked aggressively to dismantle climate regulations put in place under former President Barack Obama.
The US states at most risk are part of a “barricade” that opposes action to curb greenhouse-gas emissions, says co-author David Victor, a political scientist at the University of California, San Diego. “The politics are flipped upside down,” Victor says.
Victor says what’s needed is more scientific evidence that connects the dots between global warming and local costs to taxpayers.
“That’s what makes it all palpable,” he says. “Once you understand the local costs - that tells you what the public needs to do.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nature.com ...
Hmmmmm, I live in a “blood red” area, and nary a person has dropped dead from Climate Change.
New scare tactic! Instead of “women and children hardest hit,” it’s now going to be “Republicans hardest hit!”
Take that, you knuckle-dragging Neanderthal deplorables!
You know this is Fake News, Fake “Research” (Brookings, yeah)
If it was all true, why would the evil Dims even care?
They ask for genocide of Whites, well, there you have it
Funny how those global changes specifically target areas with Republican voters.
Victor should have stopped when he said "what's needed is more SCIENTIFIC evidence."
Sad that Nature has fallen this low.
Aren’t LA, SF, NYC, Boston and Miami all supposed to be inundated by rising sea levels. Since when did they become GOP strongholds?
We have a lot of AGW out there today.
“US climate costs will be highest in Republican strongholds”
Uuuummmmm, okay, “climate change” discriminates...Who knew.
I’m going to file this right under a fresh pile of cow $hit, for safe keeping.
Laugh now.
Wait till The Freezing-Boiling Tsunami Glaciers engulf your red county because you wore a MAGA hat.
If that’s true, then what’s YOUR problem?
Let republican strongholds pay your boogie-man climate change consequences then.
I call your stinking bluff
WHAT kind of twaddle is this article? Sounds like it was written by an 8th grader.
And all of the crops die. Even the locusts shall feast upon their own. There will be plague, pestilence, outlandishly high mini-golf scores...
There’s that word again, “could.”
Mine is currently -16 deg F.
We have a lot of AGW out there today.
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It’s 29 below in Minneapolis today. Global warming sucks.
I seven-putted the clown’s mouth because of climate change...
‘https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minneapolis
Chicago -19 and clear.
Both are Not Republican Strongholds!!
More Fake News.
We need to keep exposing these horseflakes at every opportunity.
TWB
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