{"id":3748,"date":"2021-01-27T17:40:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T01:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/?p=3748"},"modified":"2021-02-05T09:51:36","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T17:51:36","slug":"flooding-due-to-climate-change-has-cost-taxpayers-more-than-73-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/flooding-due-to-climate-change-has-cost-taxpayers-more-than-73-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Floods due to climate change have cost taxpayers more than 73 billion dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pamela Cruz. Peninsula 360 Press [P360P]<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the past three decades in the U.S., flood damage due to climate change has cost the country $73 billion, and it will continue to rise as long as we don't do what is necessary to help the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So said a study funded by Stanford University, which details that climate change accounts for one-third of the estimated $199 billion in losses generated by flooding in the country between 1988 and 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\"If we apply the empirical analysis to historical rainfall and flood damage, we estimate that about one-third - 36 percent - of the cost of flood damage between 1988 and 2017 is the result of historical changes in rainfall,\" the paper refers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The study, which used more than 6,600 state-level flood damage reports to quantify the historical relationship between rainfall and flood damage in the U.S., says that human impact on the environment has increased the likelihood of exceeding precipitation thresholds, which are responsible for most flood damage.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In that sense, he points out that climate models project a continued intensification of wet conditions over the next three decades, although a trajectory consistent with the objectives of the Paris Agreement of the United Nations Organization (UN) significantly slows that increase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\"Given the importance of assessing the costs of climate change against the costs of mitigation options, empirical quantification of losses due to changing natural hazards provides critical information to assist in policy and decision making,\" he says.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pamela Cruz. Pen\u00ednsula 360 Press [P360P] En las \u00faltimas tres d\u00e9cadas, en EE. UU., los da\u00f1os por inundaciones debido al cambio clim\u00e1tico le han costado al pa\u00eds 73 mil millones de d\u00f3lares, y seguir\u00e1 aumentando mientras no se haga lo necesario para ayudar al medio ambiente. As\u00ed lo se\u00f1al\u00f3 un estudio financiado por la Universidad [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,8,6],"tags":[273],"class_list":{"0":"post-3748","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cover","8":"category-usworld","9":"category-habitat","10":"tag-ccj"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3762,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3748\/revisions\/3762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}