WEATHER IS TAKING OUR COOKIES!
By Jerome Skinly · 6/24/2025
Uh Oh! The Weather is Costing Us Money! – By Jerome Skinly, Jape News!
Hi everybody! It’s Jerome Skinly here from Jape News! I learned something really big today and it’s kinda scary! It’s about… the weather! But not like, fun weather. Like, bad weather.
See, grown-ups are saying that the weather is changing a lot. They call it “climate change.” And it's not just making it hotter in the summer (though it is doing that!). It's costing lots and lots of money!
The people at a place called EPIC – that’s a big grown-up place at the University of Chicago – said that if we don't do anything, the weather will take a big chunk of America’s money! Like, 1% to 4% of all the money we make every year! That’s a LOT of cookies!
And it's not fair! The people who don't have as much money are going to lose even more money. It's like, if your lemonade stand gets rained on, you don’t make any money! And some places are getting rained on a lot!
Places like down South and near the ocean are going to have the worst time. The grown-ups say there will be more storms and the ocean will come up and take some of the land! Yikes!
The weather is making people hotter and tired. Grown-ups can’t work as good when it’s super hot. And the food we eat, like yummy apples and carrots, is getting harder to grow. That means food might cost more too!
And here’s the really sad part. The grown-ups say that because of the weather, more people might get sick and… and not be here anymore. That's like if lots of our friends disappeared!
We need to tell the grown-ups to do something! We need to be nice to the planet so the weather doesn't cost us so much money! And so we can all keep playing and eating yummy snacks!
That’s all for now! Bye!