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How OC Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Global Warming

Gustavo Arellano on how Orange County coastal cities are responding to rising sea levels

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By Gustavo Arellano • Jul 29, 2013 • 3m Listen

Last week, the Huntington Beach City Council approved funding for a report that will study how the city can combat the inevitable: rising sea levels. This comes just weeks after the Newport Beach City Council did the same. In a famously conservative county, where global warming is still largely dismissed as liberal propaganda by politicians, the move by the majority-Republican city councils seems like a wake-up call to the inevitable. Can these councils save their cities from the sea while remaining good conservatives?

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    Gustavo Arellano

    columnist, LA Times

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