Climate change will cost Gulf Coast billions by 2050

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Projected annual losses due to extreme weather by 2050

The U.S. Gulf Coast is facing billions of dollars in yearly property damage by 2050 due to extreme weather tied to climate change, per a new analysis.

Why it matters: Even as Gulf states are still reckoning with the aftermath of 2005’s Hurricane Katrina two decades later, more pain and loss seems inevitable.