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🗓️ 30 June 2017
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0:33.6 | This is Scientific American's 60-second science. I'm Christopher in Taliatta. |
0:39.0 | In President Trump's June 1st speech, withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris Climate Accord, |
0:43.3 | he claimed the climate agreement was costing American workers in a whole lot of ways. |
0:48.3 | In terms of lost jobs, lower wages, shuttered factories, and vastly diminished economic production. |
0:58.0 | Of course, doing nothing about climate change is also an option. But what's the economic |
1:03.0 | price of that choice? A team of economists and scientists set out to answer that question by |
1:08.0 | linking up economic and climate models to estimate how much |
1:11.3 | warming temperatures could cost the U.S. economy. And they found that for every degree Celsius, |
1:16.2 | the temperature goes up, it docks the U.S. gross domestic product, the GDP, by 1.2%. And that economic |
1:23.3 | penalty will not be evenly applied, because the southern U.S. is already much poorer than the northern |
1:28.4 | U.S. today. And it's hotter, too. You know, if you're already a really hot location, |
1:33.8 | heating up is really harmful. Solomon Shung, an economist at UC Berkeley. Going from 70 to 75, |
1:40.5 | it's not nearly as bad as going from 90 to 95. Add in more hurricane damage, smaller crop yields, lost jobs, an increase in death and disease, |
1:48.7 | and the analysis finds that climate change could eat up 20% of the poorest county's income by the end of the century. |
1:55.3 | Effectively, we're harming the poorer populations, and in some cases we're actually helping the relatively wealthier |
2:01.6 | northern populations. And so this means that climate change can actually increase inequality |
2:06.7 | within the United States. This studies in the journal Science. Warming temperatures probably |
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