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As I write, the city of New Orleans is under water for the second time in less than one month, and perhaps as many as 1,000 of its inhabitants are dead from Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. Hurricane Katrina is being called the costliest natural disaster ever to hit the United States.1 But it has also been labeled the worst “unnatural” disaster,2 as human decisions are thought to have played a major role in increasing the human toll, especially in New Orleans.
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Chapter 6 The Climate on Climate Change
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Michael Oppenheimer and Robert Boyle, Dead Heat: The Race Against the Greenhouse Efct (London: I.B. Tauris, 1990), 164; quoted in Rowlands 1995, 139.
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Davenport, D.S. (2006). The Climate on Climate Change. In: Global Environmental Negotiations and US Interests. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230601222_6
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