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Rising Sea Levels Challenge Flood Insurance Management
The Standard Times
(2015)
Abstract
Our climate is changing. And the trend of this climate change shows the earth is, on average, getting warmer. We in New England emerged from a very cold winter in 2014 making it hard for us to see (and thus believe) the earth is getting warmer. But this is the trick of cli- mate change: The pattern of overall warming is hard to see on a day-to-day basis. We tend to judge our climate through experiencing our local weather patterns: When the weather is cold like it has been in our region over the past winter, it is hard for us to connect that experience to an overall trend of a warming earth.
Keywords
- climate change,
- sea level rise,
- flood insurance,
- NFIP
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Publication Date
January 4, 2015
Publisher Statement
Article available online: http://www.southcoasttoday.com/article /20150104/OPINION/150109777/101228/NEWS0301
Citation Information
Chad J McGuire. "Rising Sea Levels Challenge Flood Insurance Management" The Standard Times (2015) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/chad_mcguire/46/