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Q&A: The Challenges of Facing Coming Climate Extremes

2013-01-16 14:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

InsideClimate News: In an essay after superstorm Sandy, Michael Gerrard, director of the Center for Climate Change Law At Columbia University [3], proposed that instead of thinking about what Sandy was, we should focus on "what Hurricane Sandy was not [4]," as his title put it. Sandy was neither a worst-case climate event nor a 100-year storm, he says. And because there's already so much heat roiling the climate system, government action won't stop future warming and future Sandys for at least the next century. So...

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