http://business.time.com/2012/11/07/hurricane-sandy-and-climate-change/ The latest news and commentary on the economy, the markets, and business Sun, 24 Mar 2013 00:00:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://business.time.com/2012/11/07/hurricane-sandy-and-climate-change/#comment-33254 Tue, 13 Nov 2012 10:33:47 +0000 http://business.time.com/?p=60445#comment-33254 [...] On issue “4” above, Hurricane Sandy forced Mayor Bloomberg and others to think about radical measures, such as building huge, mobile dikes to stop the monster storms climate change makes more likely. Rising seas and higher land temperatures call for difficult and expensive adaptations, and the good news from Tuesday’s elections, and to public responses to Hurricane Sandy and severe droughts, is that effective action is slightly more likely.  As “Time” magazine’s 11/19/12 headline put it, “Sandy Ends the Silence: Even if politicians ignore climate change, the rest of us can’t.” [...]

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