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The Booming Business of Global Warming

Global warming deniers may have to take note: climate change is already big business for entrepreneurs and investors all over the world. Shell Oil has been strategizing about it for decades. Wall Street is in on the action. Coca Cola and Nike recognize it's shaping their bottom lines.

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By Warren Olney • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

Global warming deniers may have to take note: climate change is already big business for entrepreneurs and investors all over the world. Shell Oil has been strategizing about it for decades. Wall Street is in on the action. Coca Cola and Nike recognize it's shaping their bottom lines. We hear how money's being made -- from the Arctic to Africa and the Tropics, and how the US government will have to play catch-up. What are the potential costs of looking the other way, and the differing consequences for the haves and the have-nots?

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    Warren Olney

    former KCRW broadcaster

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    Evan George

    Director of Content, News

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    Andrea Brody

    Senior Producer, KCRW's Life Examined and To the Point podcast

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    Gideon Brower

    Independent Producer

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    McKenzie Funk

    journalist and author

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    David Titley

    Pennsylvania State University

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    Coral Davenport

    energy and environmental policy reporter for the New York Times

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