What would Labor Day be without the always wacky Joe Romm chiming in?
(Climate Progress) Global warming is projected to have a serious negative impact on labor productivity this century. Here is a look at what we know.
In 2013, a NOAA study projected that “heat-stress related labor capacity losses will double globally by 2050 with a warming climate.†If we stay near our current greenhouse gas emissions pathway, then we face a potential 50 percent drop in labor capacity in peak months by century’s end.
Many recent studies project a collapse in labor productivity from business-as-usual carbon emissions and warming, with a cost to society that may well exceed that of all other costs of climate change combined. And, as one expert reviewing recent studies put it, “national output in several [non-agricultural] industries seemed to decline with temperature in a nonlinear way, declining more rapidly at very high daily temperatures.â€
Good thing real world warming isn’t cooperating with Warmist doomsday, eh?
Of course, the reality is that human society does better during warm periods than cool ones. Also, Warmist/Progressive policies do more to harm workers than a tiny increase in global temperatures.
