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Your Weather Ain’t Like Mine: The Disparate & Differential Impacts of Global Warming

Your Weather Ain’t Like Mine: The Disparate & Differential Impacts of Global Warming. Presented on Behalf of the Commission to Engage African Americans on Climate Change A Project of the Joint Center for Political & Economic Studies.

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Your Weather Ain’t Like Mine: The Disparate & Differential Impacts of Global Warming

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  1. Your Weather Ain’t Like Mine: The Disparate & Differential Impacts of Global Warming Presented on Behalf of the Commission to Engage African Americans on Climate Change A Project of the Joint Center for Political & Economic Studies

  2. People of color already twice as likely to die in heat wave

  3. One Scary Scenario: Los Angeles in 2090 Potential for a Nine-Fold Increase in Heat Death rate for African-Americans

  4. Low Income People Spend Higher % of Income on Energy And these figures are from 2006!

  5. 1973-1974: OPEC embargoes U.S., 25% cut in supply oil prices quadruple U.S. national oil bill grows $100 billion in 1974-1975 Resulting recession reduces GDP by $750 billion in 1974-1975 Energy Transitions/Shocks can entail huge economic losses The First OPEC Oil Shock

  6. Changing Agricultural and Land Use Patterns Mean Job and Economic Changes Florida Today West Antarctic Ice Sheet Melts East Antarctic Ice Sheet Melts

  7. A Question of Global Equity

  8. A Question of Global Equity

  9. The Good News 1:The Right Policies Increase GDP

  10. The Good News 2:The Right Policies Increase EmploymentPolicy Case Minus Base Case (1000s)

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