Reading for Wed. Sept. 7: Read the Executive Summary – pages 3 through 7 only. The link to the reading is provided below.

US Economic Impacts of Climate Change and the Costs of Inaction

We will discuss the following questions in class on Wed. Come prepared for the discussion.

1. What sectors of the U.S. economy are projected to be affected by climate change in the near future?                                                                                                                                                 2. What have been the economic costs of some recent extreme weather events in recent years?                                                                                                                                                             3. What are some of the reasons that different regions of the country are expected to experience different impacts or effects of different severity? What are some examples of industries that may be impacted?                                                                                                         4. Why are climate change events expected to negatively affect public sector (government) budgets? Examples?                                                                                                        5. What are some of the expected secondary affects? Why are these secondary affects expected to occur?