Climate Change

November 20, 2019

Flooded Future: Assessing the Implications of New Elevation Data for Coastal Communities

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How US Betrayed Marshall Islands, Kindling The Next Nuclear Disaster

"Five thousand miles west of Los Angeles and 500 miles north of the equator, on a far-flung spit of white coral sand in the central Pacific, a massive, aging and weathered concrete dome bobs up and down with the tide. Here in the Marshall Islands, Runit Dome holds more than 3.1 million cubic feet — or 35 Olympic-sized swimming pools — of U.S.-produced radioactive soil and debris, including lethal amounts of plutonium."

Source: LA Times, 11/11/2019

Fed Says $500 Billion in Losses Show Economic Threat of Climate Change

“The U.S. economy has experienced more than $500 billion in direct losses over the last five years due to climate and weather-related events,” Federal Reserve Bank of New York Executive Vice President Kevin Stiroh told a risk forum on Thursday at the bank."

Source: Bloomberg, 11/11/2019

U.S. Military Bases Face Increasingly Dangerous Heat as Climate Changes

"U.S. troops, already sweating through dangerous summer heat at military bases across the country, could face an extra month of life-threatening heat every year by mid-century, on average, as the planet warms, a new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists warns."

Source: InsideClimate News, 11/11/2019

Did Exxon Mislead Investors About Climate Risks? It’s Now Up to a Judge

"Lawyers for New York State and ExxonMobil wrapped up a landmark climate fraud trial on Thursday, shaping a tangle of testimony and evidence into competing narratives on whether the oil company misled investors about the risks it faces from climate regulation."

Source: InsideClimate News, 11/08/2019

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