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he Risky Business analysis builds an the research <br />and analytical work done over the pas. several decades <br />by international climate scientists and economists, <br />€tic tic+€ng the recent National Climate Assessment (NCA), <br />released it early =Fay 2014. The Risky Business Protect <br />takes as our unit of measurement the National Climate <br />Assessment regions; which are organized loosely around <br />shared geologic characteristics and climate impacts.' <br />These are: Northeast, Southeast, Mdwest, Southwest, <br />Great Plains, No€ thwest, Alaska, and Hawaii. <br />3 �Yever, we went even deeper than the ;' CCA, : o ci(,;t".ting <br />analysis down to the county level In some cases, and a'so <br />focusing on key economic sectors, N:'e overlaid our re- <br />gional climate impact findings with an economic ana ysiis <br />:bowing the potential cost of these impacts within those <br />regions and sectors, Below, we explore the most s rikI€ig <br />: <br />firl1a:'lgS from each region, We encourage readers to go <br />to rnskybusiness.org to explore these regional it -pacts in <br />more depth and to ciimatepraspectus.rhg.com for the <br />independent research team's complete risk assessment. <br />entry as tar and diverse as U.S., it does <br />not make sense to aggregate the highly lolized eco- <br />._. .im€pactsofclimate ohmic into one headline <br />number. Take the case of Hurricane icaneKatrina: in the, <br />last quarter off;:every state in the natn pros- <br />pered except the state of Louisiana, :which lost 1.6% <br />oi; Gross State Product (GSP)as businesses were shut- <br />tered and worker's stayed home; " meanwhile the <br />following year, storm recovery activities. in Louisiana <br />'e g„ constructlori) actually increased the national: <br />ross Doniesdc Pcr duct (GDP) by half a• pet 12 <br />deed; most eoanomicsucc rtd disasters it <br />the U.S. happen at the individual metropolitan, state, <br />and occasionally mu; Ie &. <br />tegions .also have.a cultural dirriension <br />ri think of themselves asp to spe <br />airaccordingto jo rr i s r 1981 <br />ine Nraiime of North America ear irffeeearepn7 <br />... , <br />hat.reiians.l i <br />i'4i\ eic atmes.t . <br />uhareconomy; ch commands acertin emo- <br />tional allegiance from its.citizens. These nations look. <br />different, feel different, and sound different from eatl <br />other, and few fcftheir `boundaries i political <br />lines drawn on current ma ." a 6arreau's obser- <br />vations un erscorethefactthat as mobil as many <br />Americans are; were still often.unkvilling or unable <br />to move out of: our home regions simply because of <br />weather r economic changes. <br />nature of climate im acts and ttre <br />of the overall American economy and <br />culturatl ideal M er <br />mead that there may not be one <br />bogie national response to the risks ItiOlightedy the <br />RiSity SWAM especial in.tl? mj+ect # reality trf un <br />lSouthwest :..:. <br />� ..Southeast —which will; <br />likely experience the most and sea level <br />beaver thisto ma +.' r lean <br />It�t� Americans <br />Mira <br />disruIrti <br />Mite both migratet <br />