Bracing for Impact: Americas Risks and Resilience (3/18/13)

Published: March 20, 2013, 7:08 p.m.

b'\\u201cThe Bay Area will be here 200 years from now. It will look different. There will be some things that have changed\\u2026but you\\u2019re going to be here. Miami won\\u2019t be here 200 years from now,\\u201d said John Englander, author of High Tide on Main Street. Englander discusses how sea levels are rising putting coastal communities at risk for flooding, larger storm surges, and erosion. Drought, superstores and other extreme weather events hit the U.S. hard in 2012. \\u201cWe are seeing more extreme weather, and we likely will continue to see more extreme weather, and not only that but it will probably last longer,\\u201d says Angela Fritz, an Atmospheric Scientist at Weather Underground. A conversation on the impacts of climate change on communities in a warming world. This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club of California March 18, 2013\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'