[MCN] The cost of a house just went up. Or not?

[Lance Olsen]

MarketWatch ( a sister publication of The Wall Street Journal)
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/what-home-buyers-and-renters-need-to-know-about-trumps-steel-tariffs-2018-03-05 <https://www.marketwatch.com/story/what-home-buyers-and-renters-need-to-know-about-trumps-steel-tariffs-2018-03-05>

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Trump announced on Thursday that he plans <https://www.marketwatch.com/story/new-tariffs-to-raise-steel-aluminum-prices-2018-03-02> to impose a 25% tariff on steel imports and a 10% tariff on aluminum, in a bid to boost domestic production and add new jobs. 

Home builders immediately slammed the plan. 

“This announcement by the president could not have come at a worse time,” Randy Noel, chairman of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and a home builder and real-estate developer from LaPlace, La., said in a statement.

“Tariffs hurt consumers and harm housing affordability,” he said.

Also see: Could stock market volatility cause house prices to fall? <https://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-one-thing-you-dont-need-to-worry-about-during-the-market-volatility-2018-02-06>
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-one-thing-you-dont-need-to-worry-about-during-the-market-volatility-2018-02-06 <https://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-one-thing-you-dont-need-to-worry-about-during-the-market-volatility-2018-02-06>


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“Things are happening right now with the ice sheets that were not predicted to happen until 2100,” Schlesinger says. 

“My worry is that we may have passed the window of opportunity where learning is still useful.” 

John Bohannan, ”Trying to Lasso Climate Uncertainty.” 
SCIENCE, 13 OCTOBER 2006
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“Personally, this is very disturbing to me,” McCarty said, because the fire indicates significant permafrost degradation “sooner than [scientists] thought it would happen.” 

Researchers project significant permafrost loss in Greenland by the end of the century. Not 2017, she said.

https://eos.org/articles/greenland-fires-ignite-climate-change-fears
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"In order to control climate change, a range of radical policies will have to be adopted by the world’s authorities – towns, cities, states, national governments and their agencies, and international organisations.”

Paul Fisher, University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership
http://www.ethicalcorp.com/how-g20-can-supercharge-green-finance

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