Climate Change Is Real And It’s Going To Cost Us Billions | Editorial
But it's hard not to notice, since most people know that average air temperatures are higher than they've ever been, that there's more flooding in the East, more wildfires in the West, and more droughts in the Midwest. And, they know that global warming has weaponized our weather.
The problem is getting the fossil-fuel industry, a driver of heat-trapping greenhouse gases, and other powerful forces, such as big agriculture, to stop causing lasting damage to the planet we inhabit, while unleashing brutal and damaging forces on the climate.
If those who deny the facts — including
How about paying for the damage of unrestrained climate change?
The National Climate Assessment contains the most detailed description of the economic impacts of climate change to date.
Climate-related disasters will suck up 10 percent of our entire economy by 2100. Heat-related deaths will cost
Ocean acidification is already killing shellfish and corals. The loss will amount to
Cities, such as
But
"You can say 'I don't believe in gravity.' But if you step off the cliff, you are going down," climate scientist
Last month, the
There are solutions, if we act now. The Trump administration should, but is unlikely, to stop undermining coal-plant and vehicle emission standards.
Environmental protections can also happen at the state level. States, such as
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