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Damage from whopper hurricanes rising for many reasons

 ...America and the world are getting more frequent and bigger multibillion dollar tropical catastrophes like Hurricane Laura, which is menacing the U.S. Gulf Coast, because of a combination of increased coastal development, natural climate cycles, reductions in air pollution and man-made climate change, experts say.

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First Methane Leak Found on Antarctic Sea Floor, Confirming Researchers' Fears

Scientists have, for the first time, discovered an active leak of methane gas from the sea floor in Antarctica. It is a process that's likely to accelerate the process of global heating.

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Climate Change: UN Panel Signals Red Alert on 'Blue Planet'

CLICK HERE - IPCC - SPECIAL REPORT ON THE OCEAN AND CRYOSPHERE IN A CHANGING CLIMATE - Summary for Policymakers

bbc.com - by Matt McGrath - September 25, 2019

According to a UN panel of scientists, waters are rising, the ice is melting, and species are moving habitat due to human activities.

And the loss of permanently frozen lands threatens to unleash even more carbon, hastening the decline.

There is some guarded hope that the worst impacts can be avoided, with deep and immediate cuts to carbon emissions.

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CLICK HERE - IPCC - Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate

CLICK HERE - IPCC - Press Release - Choices made now are critical for the future of our ocean and cryosphere

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With More Storms and Rising Seas, Which U.S. Cities Should Be Saved First?

           

Lower Manhattan is vulnerable to flooding from storm surges and sea level rise.  John Taggart for The New York Times

CLICK HERE - RESEARCH - High Tide Tax - The Price to Protect Coastal Communities from Rising Seas (27 page .PDF report)

nytimes.com - by Christopher Flavelle - June 19, 2019

As disaster costs keep rising nationwide, a troubling new debate has become urgent: If there’s not enough money to protect every coastal community from the effects of human-caused global warming, how should we decide which ones to save first?

After three years of brutal flooding and hurricanes in the United States, there is growing consensus among policymakers and scientists that coastal areas will require significant spending to ride out future storms and rising sea levels — not in decades, but now and in the very near future. There is also a growing realization that some communities, even sizable ones, will be left behind.

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