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"We’re going to lose all our heritage, all our culture. It’s all going to be history.” US’s 1st climate refugees: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/03/us/resettling-the-first-american-climate-refugees.html?em_pos=small&emc=edit_cn_20160503&nl=first-draft&nl_art=12&nlid=40541838&ref=headline&te=1
Sea level is projected to rise more than one foot by 2045, putting 1/5 of Miami underwater @ high tide. Climate gentrification, “a trend of underserved communities being taken over by investors and developers due to rising sea levels,” is becoming a thing: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/miami-faces-an-underwater-future
'We're moving to higher ground': America's era of climate mass migration is here. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/24/americas-era-of-climate-mass-migration-is-here “There’s not one state unaffected by this.” The closest analogue could be the Great Migration.
Hawaiian island erased by powerful hurricane: ‘the loss is a huge blow’ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/24/hawaiian-island-erased-by-powerful-hurricane?CMP=share_btn_tw “I thought the island would be around for a decade or two longer, but it’s far more fragile than I appreciated. The top, middle and bottom of it has gone.”
We’ve had a sneak peek at the ways that climate-linked disasters are intensified by a lack of political will to mitigate climate change, which can in turn destabilize governments and sap them of the policy muscle needed to adapt. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/10/climate-change-damaging-american-democracy/573769/
'It's a sad reality': a troubling trend sees a 97% decline in monarch butterflies. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/07/its-a-sad-reality-a-troubling-trend-sees-a-97-decline-in-monarch-butterflies?CMP=share_btn_tw Butterflies are canary in the coal mine for health of CA ecosystem.
Old, but relevant. Imperial Beach, the southernmost CA beach town, considers unthinkable: retreat from the sea. https://www.hcn.org/issues/50.17/climate-change-can-a-california-town-move-back-from-the-sea-imperial-beach?src=longreads&utm_source=Longreads+Newsletters&utm_campaign=0b1f99be3b-Longreads_Top_5_January_25_2019&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_bd2ad42066-0b1f99be3b-238598141&mc_cid=0b1f99be3b&mc_eid=6321d40831 1/3 of city could be underwater in 50 yrs, but managed retreat has never been done to scale. Insurance reminded me of: https://twitter.com/drixander/status/1065211942011322368?s=21
From a series on how climate change is already disrupting lives in America: The Gulf of Maine is warming faster than 99 percent of the world's oceans, dramatically disrupting fishery patterns and creating new winners — and losers. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/national/gone-in-a-generation/fishing-climate-change.html
Louisiana loses a football field’s worth of land every *hour and a half.* Every few minutes, it drops a tennis court’s worth. Now engineers are in a race to prevent it from sinking into oblivion. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/01/louisianas-disappearing-coast The depiction of what the map should look like is stark.
Alaskans depend on hard-frozen winters for essential transportation, subsistence hunting, industry & recreation. What happens when the ice can’t be trusted? https://nyti.ms/2KpvKPt Alaska is the fastest-warming state, heating up at twice the global average rate.
One of America's most notorious security firms, Pinkerton, is adapting again, this time preparing to profit off of the scarcity from climate change: https://nyti.ms/2Z4yLrK
“There are signs that the Lower Mississippi may be entering a new era, one where high water comes faster and longer than it ever did before. The river—long an afterthought in this flood-scarred city—might threaten New Orleans once again.” https://slate.com/business/2019/06/new-orleans-mississippi-river-high-water-climate-change.html Fascinating read.
Missed this last week: With More Storms and Rising Seas, Which U.S. Cities Should Be Saved First? https://nyti.ms/2MUv2Lo
Can American states slow global warming without help from the Feds? https://www.economist.com/united-states/2019/06/29/can-american-states-slow-global-warming-on-their-own
The California coast is disappearing under the rising sea. Our choices are grim: https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-sea-level-rise-california-coast/ The second story I’ve read in the last few days that has talked about “managed retreat” being upon us. More on one city mentioned here 
https://twitter.com/drixander/status/1089505339635126272?s=21
https://twitter.com/drixander/status/1089505339635126272?s=21
'I'm standing here in the middle of climate change': How USDA is failing farmers: The $144B Agriculture Dept. spends >1% of its budget helping farmers adapt to increasingly extreme weather. https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/15/im-standing-here-in-the-middle-of-climate-change-how-usda-fails-farmers-043615
The Trump administration this week proposed ending the so-called Roadless Rule, which banned logging, development, & road construction in Alaska’s Tongass, the biggest national forest in the US. On the chaos that will unfold: https://www.wired.com/story/tongass-logging/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=onsite-share&utm_brand=wired&utm_social-type=earned
Florida Keys Deliver a Hard Message: As Seas Rise, Some Places Can’t Be Saved https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/04/climate/florida-keys-climate-change.html Taxpayers are pissed their places won’t be invested in, there’s no court precedent to determine whether requirements to maintain roads cover adapting to rising seas. Fascinating.
To Save Louisiana’s Vanishing Coast, Build a 1/65th Scale Mississippi Near Boston: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/25/climate/louisiana-mississippi-river-model.html
Rising Seas Threaten an American Institution: The 30-Yr Mortgage https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/climate/climate-seas-30-year-mortgage.html?smid=tw-share More banks are getting buyers in coastal areas to make bigger down payments, as much as 40% of purchase price, a sign lenders have awakened to climate dangers & want less of their $$ at risk.
New Data Shows an ‘Extraordinary’ Rise in US Coastal Flooding: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/climate/coastal-flooding-noaa.html Frequency of flooding in some cities grown fivefold since 2000. That trend is likely to accelerate in next ten years.
How Decades of Racist Urban Planning Left Neighborhoods Sweltering: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/24/climate/racism-redlining-cities-global-warming.html Neighborhoods that are poorer & have more residents of color can be 5-20 degrees Fahrenheit hotter in summer than wealthier, whiter parts of the same city. Thanks, redlining!
Missed this on new FEMA + HUD programs: Using tax dollars to move whole communities out of flood zones, an idea long dismissed as radical, is swiftly becoming policy, marking a new & more disruptive phase of climate change. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/26/climate/flooding-relocation-managed-retreat.html
