This is Scott Amyx with today’s Climate Change Flash Briefing.
Who will face the most suffering from climate change? Society’s most vulnerable, including lower-income and other marginalized communities according to researchers.
In a worst-case climate-change scenario, the Fourth National Climate Assessment finds that labor-related losses by the year 2090 as a result of extreme heat — the kind that makes it difficult to work outdoors or seriously lowers productivity — could amount to an estimated $155 billion annually. Deaths from temperature extremes could take an economic toll of $141 billion per year, while coastal property damage could total $118 billion annually.
Stay tuned next time to find out why there is an unmitigated growth of carbon emissions.
