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Mega-storms' awful truth: Preparation has limits
2013-11-13 11:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNBC: A terrible reality when it comes to killer storms like Typhoon Haiyan, which has devastated the Philippines, is that you can only prepare so much. And that preparation deficit may be getting worse. "It's hard to really get a handle on preparations," said Elizabeth Ferris, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution on internal displacement. "Even when you are warned." Killer storms like Haiyan have gotten stronger over recent decades, and climate models forecast that they're going to get more...
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