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How Countries are Preparing for Climate Change - 1 Sea Level Rise, Flooding, Storm Surges

  Children in Bangladesh go to their floating school - not all solutions to flooding are high tech or hugely expensive  © Photo:   Marufish  under   CC  BY-SA  via Flick r Whether we like it or not, whether we believe in it or not, Climate Change is already here. Whole new words such as ' heat dome ,' ' rain bomb ,' ' megafire ' and " microburst ' have entered our lexicon in recent times and, while we should continue to work very hard on reducing our emissions, we should also be preparing for worst case scenarios, because even our best efforts look like falling short of the mark and even if we were to stop pumping CO2 into the atmosphere right this minute, the inbuilt momentum of the emissions already there would mean that it would take many decades before our climate returned to normal, if it ever did. I have already written about some of the things individuals can do to protect themselves against extreme heat and climate related disasters, bu...