The Daily Dose: Your Guide to the World Today – 23 June 09

Bruce Bisset

The average US household will pay a whopping 50c per day – about $175 a year – in additional costs by 2020 if the present climate change legislation is adopted, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office says. This is in stark contrast to the Republican scare-mongering claiming anywhere from $3-4000 per year per household.

Unless a billion pounds a year is spent on increased flood protection, economic damage from more severe flooding due to climate change could cost Britain ₤4 billion per year by 2035, the UK’s Environmental Agency says, warning that rivers may by then carry 20% more water at some periods of the year than at present.

The third-largest concentration of continental ice – the Southern Patagonia Ice Field – appears to be melting at a far faster rate than previously thought, according to a preliminary NASA/Chilean study, with ice loss not only at low but at high altitudes.

Whale watching is a $2.1 billion industry worldwide, with 13 million people in 119 countries paying to see cetaceans last year, a report tabled at the International Whaling Commission’s meeting says. In contrast, Japanese and Norwegian whale hunting is presumed to result in a net loss, being subsidised by government.

Sweden is urging its citizens to make climate-friendly food choices, publishing a set of consumer guidelines which recommend eating less meat and rice as a way of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

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