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Army Corps of Engineers Now Required to Consider Climate Change in All Future Projects
From Popular Science:
Worst-case planning never hurt anybody, and certainly not federal water projects that cost millions of dollars and could be easily undone by climate change and rising sea levels. A new policy now requires the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to plan for future climate change when designing plans for flood control or other projects.
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My Comment: Climate/weather are unpredictable forces of nature. It is good that they are now making assumptions for a worse case scenario .... but I thought the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers always did make the worse case scenario.