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 Stories About: climate AND East Coast AND Massachusetts AND oceans AND United States
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Shore Losers
U.S. leaders, residents turn backs on impending coastal chaos |
Jane Holtz Kay |
15 Jun 2005 |
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| Don't let Beantown become a has-been town. Buckle your seatbelts: it's going to be a wet 'n' wild ride. That's the prediction -- or, rather, the certainty -- that today's global warming carries. Erratic and unpredictable weather is en route, and coastal areas are among the places destined to be hardest hit. So why are Americans paying so little heed? As scientists and weather pundits surve ... |
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| Topics: climate, East Coast, Massachusetts, oceans, United States (all these topics) |
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