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A snowstorm in Minnesota, a flood in Kentucky, a hurricane off the coast of Louisiana. On any given day, morning news reels include images of the latest natural disaster. In the era of climate change, extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and more dramatic. So we see more of these events and they make even less sense.
We cannot just change the channel and pretend they aren’t happening, because those crises affect real people in vulnerable communities like where I live in New Orleans. We must come to see that they are not isolated incidents of bad luck, but that they are instead connected parts of a bigger, more daunting story–one of systematic climate transformations that are picking up speed and combining forces in ways that sometimes obfuscate human pattern detection at any one time and one place.
That opportunity is particularly relevant in the Mississippi River basin, the heart and vascular network of our nation’s commodity and oil and gas markets where local, regional and global economic forces are all watching for a synthesis of the future. For example, the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation , a powerful system of ocean currents, cycles warm water from the equator to Greenland.
After hurricanes, including the devastating Katrina, and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, there have been staggering investments in infrastructure and restoration of near-shore habitats to protect coastal Louisiana. The hard truth is that sea-level rise is transforming the Mississippi River basin, and it will not stop in the next century even with very successful climate-change mitigation.
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