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Duly Noted: Climate change and its direct costs on Chicago
2015-01-27 00:25:22| Grocery - Topix.net
A recent study on climate change points out that the Chicago region is susceptible to several economic effects from the changing weather that might not be immediately obvious. While much of the focus on rising temperatures, nationally, is on wildlife and how natural disasters might impact human living conditions, the study from the Risky Business Project emphasizes how much the region's energy costs could go up and how much the Midwest's agricultural economy could suffer, in turn hitting the Chicago financial markets.
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