Axios - Number of the day: $400-$900 per household. That's the average annual cost of climate change to U.S. households based on a "narrow accounting" of a subset of costs, per a new analysis by MIT and UCLA researchers. "The breadth of this range is primarily explained by different assumptions regarding how to attribute weather-related costs to climate change," it states. Home insurance premium changes have the biggest effect. The bottom line: "Although the chief concerns about climate change lie in the future, climate change is already having consequential effects for US households and taxpayers." Full study
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