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Businesses are beginning to talk about climate change in different terms. Instead of debating whether humans are causing it, there's a lot more talk about what climate change might mean to the business climate. Now, business are finding out what they can do to adapt to the change.
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ADAPTING TO CLIMATE CHANGE
Lester Graham
May 14, 2007
Businesses are beginning to talk about climate change in different terms. Instead of debating whether humans are causing it, there's a lot more talk about what climate change might mean to the business climate. Lester Graham reports there are questions about what might happen to affect business as global temperatures and weather patterns change:
For the last couple of decades, the people who've been arguing that we have to do something to reduce the greenhouse emissions causing global warming avoided one subject:
"People did not want to talk about adaptation or coping with climate change because that was seen as a cop-out."
That's Rosina Bierbaum. She was a science advisor during the Clinton administration and is now the Dean of the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan.
The fear wa...
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Host intro: Businesses are beginning to talk about climate change in different terms. Instead of debating whether humans are causing it, there's a lot more talk about what climate change might mean to the business climate. Lester Graham reports there are questions about what might happen to affect business as global temperatures and weather patterns change.
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