Not exact matches
In his May 2009 paper «The Canadian Oil Sands: Energy Security vs.
Climate Change» (long one
of my favorite sources), Levi identifies a list
of six security and
economic consequences
of oil consumption and production and then examines how increased oil sands production and exports to the
U.S. would mitigate or exacerbate these
impacts.
Although current drought worries have been focused in the West — Western states have experienced insect outbreaks; mass tree die - offs; loss
of water and carbon; bigger and more costly wildfires; and
economic impacts to timber stands due to severe, multiyear drought — in the wake
of a
changing climate, the report notes that «all
U.S. forests are vulnerable to drought.»
«So we should probably be using [these
economic and
climate] models to examine the
impact of future
climate change on various migrant - employing sectors
of the southwestern
U.S. economy.»
The two available national - scale studies that examine the
economic effects
of climate change across U.S. sectors, including the Impact Lab team's American Climate Prospectus, suggested that potential economic effects could be significant and unevenly distributed across sectors and r
climate change across
U.S. sectors, including the
Impact Lab team's American
Climate Prospectus, suggested that potential economic effects could be significant and unevenly distributed across sectors and r
Climate Prospectus, suggested that potential
economic effects could be significant and unevenly distributed across sectors and regions.
To summarize, most
of these
economic analyses agree that a carbon pricing policy will reduce
U.S. GDP - growth by less than 1 % over the next 10 — 40 years as compared to an unrealistically optimistic BAU scenario in which
climate change does not
impact the economy.
«We have focused on the
U.S. economy, although the bulk
of the
economic damage from
climate change will be borne outside
of the United States (42), and
impacts outside the United States will have indirect effects on the United States through trade, migration, and possibly other channels» — In other words they ignored the indirect effects which are extremely important hence their study is to put it mildly rubbish.
(1) No False Choices: To Preserve a Livable
Climate, We Need to Slash Both CO2 and Methane ASAP; (2) Oil
Change International Report: Fossil Fuel Production Subsidies Exceed $ 21 Billion Annually in United States, have increased by 45 % under Obama's «All
of the Above» energy policy; (3) Joint
Economic Committee Hearing on «The
Economic Impact of Increased Natural Gas Production» (video); (4) Leaked Trade Deal Document Shows EU Pressuring
U.S. to Lift Crude Oil Export Ban; (5) Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project (DDPP) Presents Interim Report to UN Secretary - General Ban Ki - Moon.
A 2003 analysis
of the potential
impact of U.S. climate change policy if it were to link greenhouse gas emission growth to a percentage
of economic growth.