This could be unbearable for the 23 million children and adults with asthma in the United States and would compound today's $32 billion price tag for allergies and allergen-driven asthma (Karl 2009).
Water shortages are already a critical issue in the Southwest and are likely to become far worse with climate change. Such shortages will make agricultural production more expensive, force cut-backs in the amount of land under cultivation, and increase the cost of living in the urban Southwest. In the Southeast, annual rainfall will likely become more variable and could drop, with longer dry spells worsening today's drought conditions. Yet hotter and drier conditions will mean that agricultural and domestic users need more water. That means climate change will threaten the survival of irrigated winter agriculture in the region. Higher temperatures, changes in water levels, and changes in precipitation will also undermine water quality in streams, lakes, and reservoirs, with rising numbers of waterways considered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to be "impaired" by pollution. Sustaining drinking water supplies, wastewater treatment, and storm-water management will require higher expenditures on infrastructure (Smith, Smith 2011). The water shortage will cause a demand in the investment of water filtering plants around the world. At the rate global warming is going, within 100 years bottle water demand and cost will increase dramatically. .
Global warming has made a tremendous impact on the world due to "mother nature's fury" of natural disasters. Wildfires, hurricanes, and tornados take a toll in the United States. Expect higher ocean temperatures to strengthen hurricanes, which can strike almost any-where in the Southeast and Gulf Coast region, taking lives and causing enormous damage. A major northeastern hurricane like the one that struck Long Island and New England in 1938 would cause $20 billion in damages was it to strike today.
