Unaccountable ‘climate risk scores’ are silently gutting the biggest asset most families will ever own.

America’s housing market has a new hidden tax, and it’s not coming from Washington. It’s coming from Wall Street. - Watts Up With That? - Jason Isaac

Platforms such as Zillow, Realtor.com, and Redfin now attach predictive climate labels to properties, presenting them as hard science even when they diverge from the data insurers and emergency managers rely on. 

A new report from the American Energy Institute and Consumers’ Research shows how these scores routinely contradict FEMA flood maps yet still sit beside the listing price like a red flag. 

• They carry no statutory authority and offer homeowners no meaningful appeal...