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California Needs a More Flexible Approach to Sea Level Rise Planning
Rising seas create significant risk to the health, safety, and economic vitality of California's coast communities, and we must prepare. A contingency-planning approach would provide flexible action over time and would build capacity that California and the nation need to respond to the many other serious and growing climate-related risks.
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Feb 18, 2021
San Diego Union Tribune
Robert J. Lempert @RobertLempert, David Behar

Global Climate Change

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What Can the Coronavirus Teach Us About Preparing for a Heat Wave?
The occurrence of a heat wave during the pandemic may be the clearest example of an overlapping disaster in the near term, but we'll likely see more and more overlapping disasters brought about by a changing climate.
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Jun 8, 2020
The National Interest
Jaime Madrigano @JMadrigano
Global Climate Change

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How Hot Is Too Hot? Rising Temperatures and the Workplace
Climate change is here. Future extreme heat waves are a given and will likely grow in intensity, geographic reach, and duration. Plans must be made now to ensure survival of the poorest, to protect outdoor workers, and to adapt economic planning to what is increasingly becoming a hotter planet.
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Nov 16, 2017
Mint
Gulrez Shah Azhar
Global Climate Change

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When It Comes to Climate, Look for Vulnerabilities in Policy, Not Science
Federal policymakers have picked up on the concept of red teaming — actively seeking out one's own vulnerabilities. While red teaming may not make sense for climate science, it does offer great benefits when weighing climate policy options.
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Aug 4, 2017
The Hill
Benjamin Lee Preston @bl_preston, Nicholas E. Burger, et al.
India

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Where Are India's Heat Hotspots?
Poverty, poor sanitation, a precarious water and electricity supply, and limited access to health care make India vulnerable to heat waves. Rural and urban districts could improve their preparedness by developing and targeting local adaptation strategies.
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May 17, 2017
The RAND Blog
Gulrez Shah Azhar, Jaime Madrigano @JMadrigano
Global Climate Change

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Evidence for Climate Change Is Overwhelming
In case after case, the theory that best fits the data is the one that also leads inexorably to the conclusion that human influence is one of the most important forces currently changing the climate, writes Robert J. Lempert.
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Mar 8, 2012
Palisadian-Post
Robert J. Lempert @RobertLempert
Global Climate Change

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Climate Scientists Should Wear Adam Smith Ties
If it were really possible to explain millions of years of Earth data with a theory that doesn't also imply a recent human influence on the climate, some ambitious, self-interested team of scientists somewhere in the world would seek scientific renown by doing so, writes Robert Lempert.
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Mar 30, 2011
Bloomberg Government
Robert J. Lempert @RobertLempert