
40. How Will We Handle the Heat?
Freakonomics, M.D.
The Biggest Effects of Warming Will Be in the South
The southern part of the country that has historically been warm will tend to do better because they'll get more hot days. So we don't expect to see large mortality effects in the south. The places that actualy have the largest effects are the places that are kind of in the middle of the country. Adaptation might be as simple as getting air conditioners into more homes, or as complex as building the kind of inter agencycoordnat on that chris ebi mentioned earlier.
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