CA to Suffer from Climate Change, Study Finds

Jul 20, 2017 at 7:02pm

Ventura County Star

California to suffer from climate change, study finds Higher crime rates and electric bills. Crops and laborers wilting in the sun. A new study says California's economy is going to lose billions of dollars a year to climate change.  California to suffer from climate change, study finds.

California to suffer from climate change, study finds The groundbreaking study, led by two UC Berkeley scientists, says global warming will punish some areas of the country more severely than others. California will suffer, but not as badly as the national average. The situation will be far worse in Gulf Coast states, which can expect to get ravaged by increasingly frequent hurricanes, and areas of the Deep South and Midwest, where agricultural yields will plummet. 

California to suffer from climate change, study finds The study, published in late June in the journal Science, concluded that climate change will also widen income gaps between poor and wealthy areas of the country. That's because hotter parts of the country, where incomes already tend to be lower, will take the brunt of the impact from global warming. 

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