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Marginal Revolution
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Mother Jones
Last night I read “The Uninhabitable Earth,” by David Wallace-Wells. That’s because I’m willing to read pretty much anything by David Wallace-Wells. His piece is self-consciously a worst-case doomsday scenario that describes what could happen if the earth’s temperature rises a lot and we don’t do anything about it. “No matter how well-informed you are,R
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Archpaper
After Hurricane Sandy in 2012, New York and New Jersey became acutely aware of their flood risk; now the Army Corps of Engineers has proposed several sea gate and wall solutions.
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Climate Action Programme
The World Bank is spending more money than ever on combatting climate change.
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Stripes
The Navy is considering erecting a 14-foot flood wall around the Washington Navy Yard to protect the historic complex along the Anacostia River from rising sea levels, internal Department of Defense documents show.
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NBC News
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Weforum
Several US cities are building waterfront parks rather than solid sea defences to try and prevent flooding.
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Wired
Can these 41-foot-high walls protect the country from another tsunami?
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The Guardian
Seawalls could cost as much as the initial investment in the interstate highway system, with Florida facing $76bn, report finds
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MIT Technology Review
In the fall of 2018, as California governor Jerry Brown’s final term was winding down, he signed an executive order that set an audacious climate goal: the world’s fifth-largest economy needed to become carbon neutral by 2045. That means the state will have to remove enough greenhouse gases from the atmosphere to balance out whatever…
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Vox
Our union represents 50,000 flight attendants. We know climate change is a huge threat.
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GreenBiz
The time for companies sitting on the sidelines on climate policy — or saying one thing and doing another — is running out.
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CBC
For the first time ever, the Bank of Canada has released a report examining the threat climate change poses to the country's financial system.
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Governing
Cities are beginning to worry that a susceptibility to climate change could reduce the chance that partners will invest in them. No financial support means no funds for the infrastructure to protect against the climate.
