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“In 2005... Mumbai, India, saw that country's most intense recorded instance of rainfall - 3 feet of rain in twenty-four hours.”

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Protecting dozens of major coastal cities from future flooding will be challenging enough-rebuilding major coastal cities destroyed by super-hurricanes will be an almost impossible…

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Much of the scientific community has been astonished that their increasingly strong and detailed warnings have been either ignored or attacked.

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Would PBS go so far as to give air time to an even more extreme kind of disinformer, a Holocaust denier?

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Since 1955 the oceans have absorbed roughly twenty times more heat than the atmosphere.

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The first few feet of sea-level rise alone will displace more than 100 million people worldwide and turn all our major Gulf and Atlantic…

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You must become a climate champion, a single-issue voter. You must take whatever action you can. You must use whatever influence you have wherever…

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Conservatives... are so opposed to government regulations that they are skeptical of anyone who identifies a problem that requires regulatory solutions - and they…

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On our current path, all our great Gulf and Atlantic coast cities are at risk of meeting the same fate as New Orleans.

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Time is short. We have at most a decade to sharply reverse course.

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Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats. We may not agree on the extent, but we certainly can't afford the risk of inaction.

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