Owner of coastal property dismayed about property insurance rates and what the rising seas will do to his property values
By Ed Ignatoff, Citizens’ Climate Lobby I manage my family’s commercial property in Palm Beach, which is home to seven ...
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Protecting Miami from storm surge and sea-level rise is more than a question of walls and pumps
By John Burr, Resilient Jax You’ve probably heard about the plans to build a six-mile, $6 billion wall across Biscayne ...
Citizens’ Climate Lobby is using the power of democracy to tackle the challenges of the climate crisis
By Sam Daley-Harris, of the anti-poverty lobby RESULTS The dire warnings of democracy’s demise are everywhere. Story after story taunts ...
Conservative Floridians need to tell our U.S. senators that they should support carbon pricing
By Joseph Bonasia, Citizens’ Climate Lobby What are our senators waiting for? The Center for Climate Integrity projects that due ...
The market can be our most effective way to repair the Earth’s climate
By Joseph Bonasia, Citizens’ Climate Lobby No Floridian would carry bags of fertilizer underarm and then dump their contents into ...
Severe storms are more evidence that the warming climate is a serious threat and we need to respond quickly
By John Van Leer, Citizens’ Climate Lobby Salt water has flooded out of my street drains in Miami-Dade County, a ...
Our leaders need to respond to the climate crisis the way they would respond to a terror attack or pandemic
By Claude Gerstle, Citizens’ Climate Lobby Many serious threats to our welfare are not immediately visible until quantifiable damage occurs ...
We are trying to flatten the coronavirus curve, but we also need to flatten the relentlessly rising curve of sea-level rise
My daughter is now 29. Seventeen years ago we snorkeled the Florida Keys’ spectacular fish-filled reefs. Her prudent fearlessness, even ...
We failed to prepare for COVID-19; we must not make the same mistake with the climate crisis
By Jeff Dorian, Citizens’ Climate Lobby We knew this contagion could happen; we didn’t know when and we were unprepared. ...
Voters need to support political candidates who grasp the urgency of the climate crisis
By Louis Merlin and Susan Kaye of Citizens’ Climate Lobby and Mary Cassell of the Sierra Club Every election season, voters ...
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