Where climate change will hit the U.S. hardest – “Left unmitigated, rising temperatures from climate change will increase inequality and mortality rates in the U.S. by the end of the 21st century, a team of economists and climate scientists warn in a study published today. It’s the first to project the impacts of climate change on individual counties in the U.S. Many of those predicted to be hit hardest are in fast-growing Arizona, Texas, and Florida…”

• See also the New York Times – As Climate Changes, Southern States Will Suffer More – “The most detailed economic study yet of global warming’s cost to the United States finds that the Southeast and Midwest will be hardest hit.”