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 Stories About: climate AND climate change impacts 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 |
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| Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, Louisiana, severe weather (all these topics) |
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Storm Front and Center
The environmental take on Hurricane Katrina |
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12 Sep 2005 |
Main Dish |
| When Hurricane Katrina ripped through the Gulf Coast, it stirred up not just gale-force winds and untold misery, but a host of difficult environmental questions. How did heedless coastal development exacerbate the hurricane's toll? What's behind the socio-economic disparity in environmental planning -- and emergency response to environmental disasters? Did global warming make the storm more intense? What new ecolo ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, Louisiana, severe weather (all these topics) |
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Meet the New Loss
Hurricane Katrina brings a foretaste of environmental disasters to come |
Bill McKibben |
07 Sep 2005 |
Soapbox |
| If the images of skyscrapers collapsed in heaps of ash were the end of one story -- the U.S. safe on its isolated continent from the turmoil of the world -- then the picture of the sodden Superdome with its peeling roof marks the beginning of the next story, the one that will dominate our politics in the coming decades: America befuddled about how to cope with a planet suddenly ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, Louisiana, severe weather (all these topics) |
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