Is the U.S. Government Underestimating the Cost of Climate Change?

All those insults and changes resulting from climate disruption add up quickly: $15 billion for Midwest farmers staring at a year of crop loss and rebuilding as the Mississippi River floods; 600 deaths and 1,000 hospitalizations as a heat wave bakes Chicago; and $147 million gone as Alaska's king crab fishery succumbs to acidification and changing prey/predator structures.The list touches virtually every human endeavor - forestry, health, tourism, energy production, city planning, agriculture, commerce, even culture. [More]

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