“’If you look across all our natural disaster policies, they’re predicated on the wrong assumption that our flood risk in the future looks identical to our flood risk in the past,’ he said. He said that initiatives like the National Flood Insurance Program, which focuses on helping people rebuild in areas that have been flooded, were increasingly ‘untenable,’ given sea level rise.”

Read the entire article at the New York Times: Flooding in the South Looks a Lot Like Climate Change

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