Interdisciplinary Team: Climate Change and American Sovereignty

interdisciplinary team: An interdisciplinary team of climatologists and economists based its findings on economic models and 116 projections of the impact of climate change, according to The Japan Times. The study comes just weeks after President Donald Trump announced that the United States will withdraw from the Paris accord aimed at combating climate change. The poorest one-third of U.S. counties could see income drops of as great as 20 percent if current trends continue, according to the worst-case projection of the study, published in the journal Science. His move drew intense international criticism, but Trump insisted Thursday he is proud of having pulled out from the agreement, saying the move will save U.S. jobs and protect American sovereignty. Southern states and those in the lower Midwest that already tend to be hot and relatively poor have the most to lose if economic activity migrates to the North and West, the study said. The new study, however, predicts large-scale economic losses and potentially the greatest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in American history, according to Solomon Hsiang, professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley, the study's principal author. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.