US: Climate Central report - 10 states most at risk from climate change

Most U.S. states are prepared to fight the climatic events they currently face — whether drought, wildfires, inland flooding, heat or coastal flooding. But few have taken the appropriate steps to combat future threat levels from climate change, a new analysis from Climate Central and ICF international said Wednesday, according to a report by the Weather Channel.

“Today, we have $8 billion in [climatic] damages a year. In the '80s, adjusted for inflation, we had $3 billion,” Richard Wiles, the Senior Vice President for Program Strategy and Integration at Climate Central, told weather.com. “We're seeing more impacts, and we're very confident those impacts are going to increase — both in terms of the cost of human lives and the cost of recovery.”