{"id":11603,"date":"2017-06-29T21:34:26","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T01:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=11603"},"modified":"2017-06-29T21:35:05","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T01:35:05","slug":"new-study-shows-that-the-south-may-bear-the-worst-of-climate-change-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/06\/new-study-shows-that-the-south-may-bear-the-worst-of-climate-change-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"New study shows that the South may bear the worst of climate change costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new study released this week indicates that the American South will feel the worst economic effects of a warming climate.\u00a0 Articles in <em>The Atlantic<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2017\/06\/global-warming-american-south\/532200\/?utm_source=feed\">here<\/a> and in the <em>New York Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2017\/06\/29\/climate\/southern-states-worse-climate-effects.html?hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;clickSource=story-heading&amp;module=photo-spot-region&amp;region=top-news&amp;WT.nav=top-news&amp;mtrref=www.facebook.com\">here<\/a> describe the results of the study published today in <em>Science<\/em> which use a new economic method of calculating economic costs by calculating the costs for individual counties and adding them up rather than doing a regional study and downscaling them.\u00a0 The maps in the study show that economic damage to many parts of the Southeast may reach as much as 20% decrease in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by late in the century, while some other areas of the US, particularly in northern states, may see up to 10% increase in GDP. A companion map shows that yields will decrease in many parts of the Southeast although there are some areas where they are expected to go up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/06\/economic-costs-of-climate-change.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11604\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/06\/economic-costs-of-climate-change-300x154.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/06\/economic-costs-of-climate-change-300x154.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/06\/economic-costs-of-climate-change-768x395.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/06\/economic-costs-of-climate-change-268x138.jpg 268w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/06\/economic-costs-of-climate-change.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/06\/agriculture-climate-change.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11605\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/06\/agriculture-climate-change-300x95.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"95\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/06\/agriculture-climate-change-300x95.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/06\/agriculture-climate-change-768x242.png 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/06\/agriculture-climate-change-437x138.png 437w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/06\/agriculture-climate-change.png 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study released this week indicates that the American South will feel the worst economic effects of a warming climate.\u00a0 Articles in The Atlantic here and in the New York Times here describe the results of the study published today in Science which use a new economic method of calculating economic costs by calculating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":11604,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science","category-crops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11603"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11607,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11603\/revisions\/11607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}