'It has to be dealt with': what is the future for midwest towns affected by climate change?

'It has to be dealt with': what is the future for midwest towns affected by climate change?

Those who have felt the effects no longer doubt climate change is happening; how to prepare for it is a different issue Larry Turner doesn’... 00:01:00

Those who have felt the effects no longer doubt climate change is happening; how to prepare for it is a different issue

Larry Turner doesn’t expect to be back.

“We’re going to lose our town,” he said as he hosed down what little he was able to rescue from his 95-year-old mother’s house after weeks underwater in the small Iowa community of Pacific Junction. “I’ve been here 68 years and this is the worst I’ve ever seen. Every home got destroyed.”

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from US news | The Guardian http://bit.ly/2Ea20AP