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reuters.com - by Sharon Begley - June 24, 2014
(Reuters) - Annual property losses from hurricanes and other coastal storms of $35 billion; a decline in crop yields of 14 percent, costing corn and wheat farmers tens of billions of dollars; heat wave-driven demand for electricity costing utility customers up to $12 billion per year.
These are among the economic costs that climate change is expected to exact in the United States over the next 25 years, according to a bipartisan report released on Tuesday. And that's just for starters: The price tag could soar to hundreds of billions by 2100.
American Climate Prospectus
http://rhg.com/reports/climate-prospectus
American Climate Prospectus - Economic Risks in the United States (202 page .PDF report)
http://rhg.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/RHG_AmericanClimateProspectus_June2014_LowRes1.pdf
Risky Business executive summary report
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Risky Business - Economic Risks of Climate Change in the United States (56 page .PDF report)
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