Climate change will cost US coastal areas twice as much as previously predicted by analysts. Storm surge from tropical cyclones can cause additional costs to sea level rise.
The study did not take into account possible additional damage entrepreneurship, infrastructure, such as roads and electricity networks, natural resources and the environment.
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Mikehaseler
There's a whole genre of articles which I call "climate coulds ... " from climate could cause earthquakes to climate could cause aliens to come down and destroy the nasty humans.
My favourite is the "climate could cause animals to shrink". It's actually a reinvention of Lamarkism that said that Giraffes got their long necks by stretching - so utter non-science, but the same stories get published time and time again by newspaper's who just cut and paste the same non-science to fill a few column inches.
CharonNixHydra
To put this in perspective it is estimated that the Joint Strike Fighter program will cost about the same amount of money in 50 years time.
Paul Yagoda
The temperature hasn't changed at all in over 17 years.
