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It is easier to use than wind or solar power because it can produce electricity around the clock, without reliance on weather conditions.
Over the last 12 months, thousands of lives were saved in India, the Philippines, and elsewhere by improved weather forecasting, early-warning systems, and evacuation plans.
But we don’t blame butterflies for the weather, and we are generally ready for its vagaries.
Losses from weather disasters are increasing, but the reason isn’t climate change – as many of us assume – but demographics.
Climate change policies are not the best way to reduce the effects of weather disasters.
And strong reserve positions and relatively conservative macroeconomic policies have enabled most major producers to weather enormous fiscal stress so far, without falling into crisis.
The Masses Are Mobilizing for Climate LeadershipLONDON – This year, extreme weather conditions have ravaged our planet, subjecting vulnerable communities around the world to the ever-increasing impacts of climate change.
Floods, droughts, and wildfires are becoming deadlier, and weather patterns more severe.
Extreme Weather and Global GrowthCAMBRIDGE – Until recently, the usual thinking among macroeconomists has been that short-term weather fluctuations don’t matter much for economic activity.
Construction hiring may be stronger than usual in a March when the weather is unseasonably mild, but there will be payback in April and May.
Extreme weather certainly throws a ringer into key short-term macroeconomic statistics.
After two crazy winters in Boston, where I live, it would be hard to convince people that weather doesn’t matter.
The US as a whole did not have a winter as extreme as New England’s in the first part of 2015, and the effects of the weather on the country’s overall economy were subdued.
Eastern Canada suffered much more, with severe winter weather playing a role (along with lower commodity prices) in the country’s mini-recession in the first half of the year.
From Russia to Switzerland, temperatures have been elevated by 4-5º Celsius, and the weather patterns look set to remain highly unusual in 2016.
There is a long history of weather having a profound impact on civil strife as well.
On a more mundane level (but highly consequential economically), the warm weather in the US may very well cloud the job numbers the Federal Reserve uses in deciding when to raise interest rates.
It is true that employment data are already seasonally adjusted to allow for normal weather differences in temperate zones; construction is always higher during spring than winter.
But standard seasonal adjustments do not account for major weather deviations.
Graduates going into mortgage banking are faced with a different, but equally vital, challenge: to design new, more flexible loans that will better help homeowners to weather the kind of economic turbulence that has buried millions of people today in debt.
A decade after the 1998 crisis brought Russia to its knees, its leaders boasted that the country could weather the 2008 financial crisis.
Extreme weather already is becoming more common, as exemplified by record-high temperatures worldwide this year.
In 2008, when severe weather cut into the world’s grain supply and drove up food prices, countries ranging from Morocco to Indonesia experienced social and political upheavals.
Finally, we need better policies for managing human migration, much of it related to severe weather and droughts.
The federal government’s role should be to make Puerto Rico a hub for investing in clean, renewable energy that is resilient to weather shocks.
New technology that results from this investment could be commercialized and sold to a world that is struggling to adapt to climate change and extreme weather.
Hunger afflicts hundreds of millions, as world weather patterns seem to become more erratic, with more dangerous droughts and floods associated perhaps with long-term changes in the climate.
What had been an offshore European island with bad weather emerged as the world’s major economy, whose products, from textiles to railroad equipment, came to dominate world markets.
We did not have to wait until 2000 to find these predictions were correct: by the 1980’s, global warming became apparent in temperature measurements from weather stations around the world.
Indeed, emerging-market economies should reduce their accumulation of foreign assets rather than hope to weather the political backlash against SWF’s in the US and EU.
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