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A huge increase in climate change-induced flood risk from sea level rise, heavier rainfall, and stronger/slower-moving hurricanes is nearly certain to force abandonment of portions of the U.S. Gulf and Atlantic coasts by late this century, even under a moderate global warming scenario. 1/7

The floods of the future won't come one at a time » Yale Climate ConnectionsA dangerous collision of storm surge, torrential rain, and sea level rise threatens to overwhelm communities from Texas to Maine.yaleclimateconnections.org

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When we don't adequately fund public universities, and instead force students to take out loans, what we as a society are really doing is borrowing money from the younger generation—their hard-earned future income—to fund a necessary project that benefits us all: building an educated society.