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Stories About: climate AND climate change adaptation AND climate change impacts AND climate change mitigation AND Louisiana AND severe weather

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Hurricane Katrina and the myth of global warming adaptation
When it comes to climate change, prevention is more important than adaptation		 Joseph Romm 29 Aug 2007 Gristmill
G. Gordon Liddy's daughter repeated a standard Denier line in our debate: Humans are very adaptable -- we've adapted to climate changes in the past and will do so in the future. I think Hurricane Katrina gives the lie to that myth. No, I'm not saying humans are not adaptable. Nor am I saying global warming caused Hurricane Katrina, although warming probably did make it more intense. But on the two-year anniversary of Katrina, I'm saying Katrina showed the limitati ...
Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, Louisiana, severe weather (all these topics)


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