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Why we’re adapting
Rising temperatures
“Every year since 2013 has been warmer than it was in 2013 and every year prior in a record that dates back to 1880," says Peter Huybers of the Harvard John. A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
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Rising security risks
“In my judgment, climate change is the biggest non-state-actor threat there is, and we have a lot of planning to do,” says former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, now the special presidential envoy for climate change.
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Rising tides
“Any intelligent coastal city has to be thinking about how are we going to protect ourselves against what we know is baked in at this point," says Elizabeth Kolbert, a New Yorker staff writer and Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
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Rising inequality
“Climate change is a threat multiplier. All the inequities that any community is facing, whether social, economic or health, climate change just compounds that,” said Shamar Bibbins, a senior program officer focused on climate change resiliency from the Kresge Foundation.
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Rising health concerns
"In 2013, when I read the Lancet report, my rose-colored glasses were knocked off. I clearly saw how climate change was going to be the greatest health threat of our time," says Renee N. Salas, assistant professor of emergency medicine at Harvard Medical School.
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Rising carbon dioxide
"In 2020, about 80% of the energy used by civilization worldwide still comes from these fossil fuels. It will take decades to free ourselves from them," says Professor of Environmental Policy John P. Holdren.
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Rising wildfires
"What we can say is that the increase in fire activity in the West over the last 30 years is very likely tied to warmer temperatures under climate change, which has led to drier fuel," says Loretta Mickley, senior research fellow in chemistry-climate interactions at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.