Climate change is going to be expensive—for everybody

Climate change will hit every level of an economy. Mentally and physically people work worse when they are hot. Rising seas and fiercer storms chew up infrastructure. And agricultural effects like crop failures reach far beyond borders. But all that stuff is years away, right?

Wrong. As deniers like to say, climate is always changing. And it turns out that these changes show up in the economic record. The new study compared annual temperature to annual GDP for every country.

FULL STORY: click here