Georgia Climate Change Damage Maps
In a 2017 Science article Solomon Hsiang of Stanford University and 11 co-authors published economic estimates of climate change damage for all 3000+ counties in the United States. They estimate damages (and sometimes benefits) in eight categories: agriculture yields, mortality, energy expenditures, low-risk labor supply, high-risk labor supply, coastal damage, property crime, and violent crime. The also sum the economic effects of the individual categories for an overall estimate of county-level climate damages in the form of percentage loss (or gain) in county gross domestic product.
The eight county-level interactive maps show the Hsiang et al. estimates for overall damages and individual category damages. The estimated damages for each category are for the end-of-century period 2080-2099, and are calculated as relative damages compared to the no-climate-change outcome. See the article for details.
The original CSV-format climate change damages datasets are available here.
Full-screen versions of the total damages map and maps for the seven individual damage sectors are available from these links:
- Median total direct economic damage across all sectors
- Percent change in agricultural yields, area-weighted average for maize, wheat, soybeans, and cotton
- Change in all-cause mortality rates, across all age groups
- Change in labor supply for full-time-equivalent workers for low-risk jobs where workers are minimally exposed to outdoor temperature
- Change in labor supply for full-time-equivalent workers for high-risk jobs where workers are heavily exposed to outdoor temperature
- Change in damages from coastal storms
- Change in property-crime rates
- Change in violent-crime rates