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Florida Sees Signals of a Climate-Driven Housing Crisis Home sales in areas most vulnerable to sea-level rise began falling around 2013, researchers found. Now, prices are following a similar downward path. In places like Bal Harbour, Fla., climate worries have reduced demand for high-risk coastal real estate, researchers say. In places like Bal Harbour, Fla., climate worries have reduced demand for high-risk coastal real estate, researchers say. Credit...Rose Marie Cromwell for The New York Times Christopher Flavelle By Christopher Flavelle Oct. 12, 2020, 6:00 a.m. ET + If rising seas cause America’s coastal housing market to dive — or, as many economists warn, when — the beginning might look a little like what’s happening in the tiny town of Bal Harbour, a glittering community on the northernmost tip of Miami Beach. With single-family homes selling for an average of $3.6 million, Bal Harbour epitomizes high-end Florida waterfront property. But around 2013, something started to...

California can fix its wildfire crisis — if politics don’t get in the way Photo of J.D. Morris J.D. Morris Oct. 2, 2020 Updated: Oct. 2, 2020 4 a.m. Comments 4 Firefighters backburn east of Palisades Road in an attempt to keep the Glass Fire off of Highway 29 in Calistoga on Tuesday. 1 of 4Firefighters backburn east of Palisades Road in an attempt to keep the Glass Fire off of Highway 29 in Calistoga on Tuesday.Photo: Santiago Mejia / The Chronicle The remains of fire retardant on a burned hill seen along Highway 162 on Saturday in Glenn County, part of the landscape scorched by the record-breaking August Complex. 2 of 4The remains of fire retardant on a burned hill seen along Highway 162 on Saturday in Glenn County, part of the landscape scorched by the record-breaking August Complex.Photo: Santiago Mejia / The Chronicle The Rattlesnake Firefighter Trailhead on Sept. 26 in Elk Creek (Glenn County). The area was destroyed by an August Complex fire. The commemorative trail travels the r...

  What Trump’s Environmental Rollbacks Mean for Global Warming By  Nadja Popovich  and  Brad Plumer Sept. 17, 2020 President Trump has made dismantling federal climate policies a centerpiece of his administration. A  new analysis  from the Rhodium Group finds those rollbacks add up to a lot more planet-warming emissions. Fuel economy California vehicles Methane: oil and gas Methane: landfills Hydrofluoro- carbons Germany Britain Canada Effect of all rollbacks by 2035 1.8 billion metric tons CO 2  equivalent Emissions in 2018 1.6 billion metric tons CO 2  equivalent A handful of major climate rules reversed or weakened under Mr. Trump could have a significant effect on future emissions.  Each dot = 1 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent Together, these rollbacks are expected to result in an additional 1.8 billion metric tons of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere by 2035. That’s more than the combined energy emissions of Germany, Br...

  Hurricane Sally Is a Slow-Moving Threat. Climate Change Might Be Why. Scientists say that climate change, which has also contributed to the wildfires on the West Coast, helped intensify a storm that is unleashing a deluge in Florida, Alabama and Mississippi. Biloxi Bay spilling over outside the Palace Casino in Biloxi, Miss., on Tuesday. Credit... Emily Kask for The New York Times By  Richard Fausset ,  Rick Rojas  and  Henry Fountain Published Sept. 15, 2020 Updated Sept. 16, 2020,  1:33 a.m. ET [Follow our  live Hurricane Sally updates  and our  map tracker .] BAYOU LA BATRE, Ala. — Hurricane Sally parked itself over the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday, churning slowly and lumbering at a sluggish pace toward land, representing a climate change reality that has made many hurricanes wetter, slower and more dangerous. Sally’s outer bands unleashed a relentless rain that began in the morning and continued unabated all day and into the nig...