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Katrina signals start of climate exodus

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Those of us who track the effects of global warming had assumed that the first large flow of climate refugees would probably be in the South Pacific with the abandonment of Tuvalu or other low-lying islands. We were wrong. The first massive movement of climate refugees has been that of people away from the Gulf Coast of the United States.

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