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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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    The full episode

    2 of 3
    Cashing In on Climate Change
    1. 0:00US Aid to Afghanistan Flows Despite Warnings of Misuse
    2. 7:43The Booming Business of Global WarmingYou’re reading this
    3. 44:20What Does Waxman Resignation Mean for California, Congress?
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