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Failure to prepare for extreme weather costs billions

2014-02-12 10:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Detroit Free Press: Failing to prepare for extreme weather events has cost the United States $1.15 trillion in economic losses from 1980 to 2010 and could cost another trillion in coming years, a Department of Homeland Security official told a Senate panel Wednesday. "According to the U.S. Global Change Research Program, future impacts of climate change project national economic losses on the order of $1.2 trillion through 2050," said David Heyman, DHS' assistant secretary for policy. Wednesday's Senate Homeland...

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