The following article by Joe Romm was posted on the ThinkProgress website May 4, 2018:
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond warns southern states face greatest impact from rising temperatures.
Failure to stop business-as-usual global warming will deliver a severe economic blow to Southern states, a recent paper by the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond finds.
Remarkably, this ground-breaking study, “Temperature and Growth” concludes that “under the business-as-usual scenario, the projected trends in rising temperatures could depress U.S. economic growth by up to a third.”
As the Wall Street Journal summed up the findings: “Climate Change May Deeply Wound Long-Term U.S. Growth.” Continue reading “Trump voters hurt most by Trump policies, new study finds”