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    Record Floods in Red States

    Record flooding this week in Houston killed eight people, devastated more than a thousand homes, and caused at least $5 billion in damage. And the storms aren't over. Forecasters predict that in coming days rains along the Gulf Coast could create flooding levels that haven't been seen for 500 years.

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    KCRW placeholderBy Barbara Bogaev • Apr 21, 2016 • 33m Listen

    Record flooding this week in Houston killed eight people, devastated more than a thousand homes, and caused at least $5 billion in damage. And the storms aren't over. Forecasters predict that in coming days rains along the Gulf Coast could create flooding levels that haven't been seen for 500 years. While there's no definitive link between isolated extreme storms and global climate change, scientists agree that a warming planet increases the frequency of intense weather events, as well as rising seas. Some Red State mayors of cities affected by rising seas are now breaking ranks with party leadership and calling for policies to combat global warming. But are extreme weather events enough to budge top Republican leaders from their staunch denial of climate change science?

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      Barbara Bogaev

      radio journalist

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      Andrea Brody

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

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      Paul von Zielbauer

      Co-founder of Geezer magazine, former producer for To the Point and Which Way LA?; former reporter for the New York Times

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      KCRW

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      Mike Morris

      Houston Chronicle

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      J. Marshall Shepherd

      University of Georgia

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      Jim Cason

      City of Coral Gables, Florida

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    2 of 3
    Will Southern Floods Force Republicans to Accept Climate Change?
    1. 1:49Musician Prince Dead at 57
    2. 8:46Record Floods in Red StatesYou’re reading this
    3. 42:42NPR "Embeds" in the Podcast World
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