Us Climate Change Cost

Major hurricanes, wildfires, tornadoes, drought and a fierce winter storm caused more than $165 billion in damage in the United States last year with climate change "supercharging" some extreme weather, a US government report said Tuesday.

Climate change is on track to ramp up the annual cost of US flood damage more than 25 percent by 2050, according to new research Monday that warns disadvantaged communities will likely bear the brunt of the financial burden.

Nearly 70 percent of Americans, including a majority of Republicans, want the United States to take "aggressive" action to combat climate change - but only a third would support an extra tax of $100 a year to help, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released Wednesday.

US President Donald Trump said on Monday he had read parts of a US government report projecting that climate change will cost the country's economy billions of dollars by the end of the century, but he does not believe the economic impacts will be devastating.

"Our results suggest that weight restriction may impose a non-trivial cost on airlines and impact aviation operations around the world," said Ethan Coffel of Columbia University in the US who is lead author of a study published in the journal Climatic Change.

The landmark Paris climate pact was a bad deal for the US as it "front-loaded" its costs while China and India "back-loaded" theirs, causing a contraction in the American economy, the Trump administration has said. "What Paris represents is a bad deal for this country. We front-loaded our costs. China and India back-loaded theirs. That caused a con...

US President Barack Obama said today he expected a gradual shift in Russia's strategy on Syria as it counted the cost of keeping President Bashar al-Assad in power.

By 2030, the direct damage costs to health will be a whopping two to four billion US dollars.

President Barack Obama will on Wednesday warn that a one-foot rise in sea levels could cost the United States as much as $200 billion, in a speech warning of the security risks of climate change.

Rising sea levels could threaten infrastructure worth more than Aus$226 billion (US$205 billion) in Australia if climate change is left unchecked, a study warned Wednesday.

Climate change will exact enormous costs on U.S. regional economies in the form of lost property, reduced industrial output and higher health expenses.

President Barack Obama's move to limit U.S. carbon emissions may prompt an important shift by China in its climate policies, where officials are increasingly worried about the costs of pollution anyway, according to a Chinese expert and activists closely following the international negotiations.

Major hurricanes, wildfires, tornadoes, drought and a fierce winter storm caused more than $165 billion in damage in the United States last year with climate change "supercharging" some extreme weather, a US government report said Tuesday.

Climate change is on track to ramp up the annual cost of US flood damage more than 25 percent by 2050, according to new research Monday that warns disadvantaged communities will likely bear the brunt of the financial burden.

Nearly 70 percent of Americans, including a majority of Republicans, want the United States to take "aggressive" action to combat climate change - but only a third would support an extra tax of $100 a year to help, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released Wednesday.

US President Donald Trump said on Monday he had read parts of a US government report projecting that climate change will cost the country's economy billions of dollars by the end of the century, but he does not believe the economic impacts will be devastating.

"Our results suggest that weight restriction may impose a non-trivial cost on airlines and impact aviation operations around the world," said Ethan Coffel of Columbia University in the US who is lead author of a study published in the journal Climatic Change.

The landmark Paris climate pact was a bad deal for the US as it "front-loaded" its costs while China and India "back-loaded" theirs, causing a contraction in the American economy, the Trump administration has said. "What Paris represents is a bad deal for this country. We front-loaded our costs. China and India back-loaded theirs. That caused a con...

US President Barack Obama said today he expected a gradual shift in Russia's strategy on Syria as it counted the cost of keeping President Bashar al-Assad in power.

By 2030, the direct damage costs to health will be a whopping two to four billion US dollars.

President Barack Obama will on Wednesday warn that a one-foot rise in sea levels could cost the United States as much as $200 billion, in a speech warning of the security risks of climate change.

Rising sea levels could threaten infrastructure worth more than Aus$226 billion (US$205 billion) in Australia if climate change is left unchecked, a study warned Wednesday.

Climate change will exact enormous costs on U.S. regional economies in the form of lost property, reduced industrial output and higher health expenses.

President Barack Obama's move to limit U.S. carbon emissions may prompt an important shift by China in its climate policies, where officials are increasingly worried about the costs of pollution anyway, according to a Chinese expert and activists closely following the international negotiations.