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Sally Field says Paul Newman complained about not being offered roles
The Hollywood legend “always talked about being dissatisfied with it,” recalls Field, his costar in “Absence of Malice.”
Novant Health’s economic impact hits $4.33B as Cape Fear population surges
Novant Health’s Coastal Region now generates $4.33 billion in annual economic output, more than triple what it reported a decade ago, according to an updated independent analysis by University of North Carolina Wilmington economist Mouhcine Guettabi.
Novant Health’s economic impact hits $4.33B as Cape Fear population surges
Novant Health’s Coastal Region now generates $4.33 billion in annual economic output, more than triple what it reported a decade ago, according to an updated independent analysis by University of North Carolina Wilmington economist Mouhcine Guettabi.
Pederson Takes Key Step but Rangers Still Await His Return
Joc Pederson is finally gripping a bat after a painful left hand fracture, offering a glimmer of hope for a Texas Rangers lineup chasing a crucial postseason berth.
South Grand business leaders apologize for letter targeting homeless
Leaders of the South Grand Boulevard business district in St. Louis have issued an apology after a letter shared to business owners earlier this week told them not to offer food or water to people exp...
First look: New renderings show exhibit spaces at MOSH's new museum
New renderings released by MOSH show some of the museum's exhibit spaces at its planned Northbank facililty.
Brewers' biggest flaw heading into MLB postseason revealed by ESPN
This one issue for the Brewers could really derail their postseason run.
Pittsburgh Football Show, Episode 2, Sept. 18, 2026
Welcome to the show, Pittsburgh. I’m incredibly pleased to unveil The Pittsburgh Football Show, our new three-hour weekly broadcast that […]
Arsenal’s summer signing tipped to outshine Odegaard this season
Bruno Guimaraes has been tipped to play an important role in Arsenal’s success this season after arriving from Newcastle United in the last transfer window.Arsenal already have one of the strongest ...
Safety Alert: Health experts expect long flu season
October is under two weeks away, which means flu season is just around the corner.
Safety Alert: Health experts expect long flu season
October is under two weeks away, which means flu season is just around the corner.
Safety Alert: Health experts expect long flu season
October is under two weeks away, which means flu season is just around the corner.
Safety Alert: Health experts expect long flu season
October is under two weeks away, which means flu season is just around the corner.
Safety Alert: Health experts expect long flu season
October is under two weeks away, which means flu season is just around the corner.
Defense questions DNA evidence in TJ Wiggins triple-murder trial
Defense attorney Debra Tuomey questioned the reliability of DNA evidence linking TJ Wiggins to the 2020 killings at Lake Streety in Frostproof.
My son’s death during a college football workout was preventable. Lessons must be learned
Arizona State hockey player Matthew Mayich is fighting for his life after collapsing during practice. Tragedies like this can be avoided
Duncan Sheik, Tony Award-winning composer, dies at 56
Duncan Sheik attends 'The Broadway Legacy Foundation Launch' at the Broadway Museum on November 11, 2025 in New York City. (Santiago Felipe/Getty Images)Duncan Sheik, the Tony Award-winning composer behind Spring Awakening and more, has died, according to his Instagram. He was 56.The Friday morning Instagram post said the "father, husband, son, brother, and friend" died on Thursday night "surrounded by love."A message shared on Sheik's Instagram earlier this week by his family said he was "receiving medical care" and was "in critical but stable condition.""The world has a lost a singular talent, and deeply influential voice in music and theater," Friday's statement said. "From his Grammy-nominated hit “Barely Breathing” to his groundbreaking, Tony and Grammy Award-winning work on Spring Awakening, Duncan’s artistry touched many and leaves an indelible mark on the cultural landscape."Born on Nov. 18, 1969, in Montclair, New Jersey, Sheik rose to fame in 1996 when he released his self-titled debut album, which included his hit song, "Barely Breathing."The song peaked at No. 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and earned him a Grammy nomination for best male pop vocal performance.Following his debut album, he released Humming in 1998, Phantom Moon in 2001 and Daylight in 2002.While "Barely Breathing" established Sheik as a singer-songwriter, his career later expanded into musical theater, where he found success as a composer.Sheik collaborated with lyricist Steven Sater and composed the music for Spring Awakening, which opened on Broadway in 2006.He told Broadcast Music, Inc. in 2015 that around the time he was making the music for Spring Awakening, he wasn't "a huge fan" of music that was happening on Broadway and he wanted to make the music for an audience "beyond the normal crowd that would go to a Broadway musical."The rock musical, based on Frank Wedekind's 1891 play and starring Jonathan Groff, Lea Michele, John Gallagher and Skylar Astin, became a major success. It won eight Tony Awards in 2007, including best musical, best original score and best orchestrations.He went on to compose music for several other stage productions, including American Psycho and Because of Winn-Dixie. He also collaborated with Sater again on Alice by Heart and The Secret Life of Bees.In his interview with Broadcast Music, Inc., he added that working on musical theater has "helped broaden my palette."Sheik went on to release several more albums throughout his career, including White Limousine, Whisper House, Covers 80s, Legerdemain and Claptrap.In May, it was announced that Sheik's new musical, Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen, would make its off-Broadway debut this fall. The musical is based on Moyoco Anno's manga graphic novel of the same name.An off-Broadway revival of Spring Awakening is also set to open this fall. Copyright © 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.
Bridges Texas History explores iconic politician Lloyd Bentsen
In his latest Texas history column, Ken Bridges looks at the life and legacy of four-term U.S. Senator Lloyd Bentsen.
Community health workers: Rural Michigan’s solution
For those who believe -- as we do at MHP Salud – every Michigander should have a fair shot at good health and care -- this is the moment to act.
Her postpartum depression spiraled and she couldn't get care. She's not alone
Half of U.S. women had trouble when getting health care, according to new research. One in three women said a doctor minimized or dismissed symptoms.
Inside the myth of the ‘superfood’ – and what you should really be eating
If no food actually possesses nutritional superpowers, what should we be eating? Here's what to know.
Reno health inspectors find wine, linens stored under sewer line
One restaurant was cited for improper storage of wine and linens, and sauce that had been cooling too slowly to prevent bacterial growth.
At Salesforce's Dreamforce, business leaders say AI is already moving too fast for them
Attendees at Salesforce's annual conference say they're still catching up with existing AI tools, even as frontier models keep advancing
As tech honchos call for regulation, AI policy has largely stalled
The debate over AI policy has widened after executives called for slower development and guardrails.
Trinity Health Chelsea Hospital nurses join growing unionization push
Registered nurses at Trinity Health Chelsea Hospital add to Michigan's growing number of union-represented health care workers.
Her Black dad couldn't go on a Capitol trip. She could be a US senator
Juliana Stratton, Lisa Blunt Rochester and Angela Alsobrooks could make history as the first three Black women to serve in the Senate concurrently.
Sound science used to protect Collier from mosquitoes
Claims that the Collier County Mosquito Control District applies 'millions of gallons of neurotoxin' simply do not match the facts
Bills QB Josh Allen Shares Personal News Before Lions Game
Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen revealed his new motivation in life. The post Bills QB Josh Allen Shares Personal News Before Lions Game appeared first on HEAVY.
Orlando Science Center renames venue to VyStar Adventure Theater
VyStar Credit Union donated $1 million to Orlando Science Center for its Unlock Science Campaign and new theater.
Work has stopped on system that was key to Trump effort to limit mail voting, USPS chief says
The top official at the U.S. Postal Service said Thursday that the agency has stopped work on developing a controversial computer system that was central to President Donald Trump’s effort to limit mail voting after the Supreme Court rejected his executive order this week.
What Players Phoenix Suns Will Protect in Expansion Draft?
As Las Vegas and Seattle loom on the horizon, Phoenix faces agonizing roster choices to shield foundational stars and rising prospects from becoming cornerstone pieces for new rivals.
If anyone can defy 'political gravity' it's Trump and his team: Kellyanne Conway
Former Trump senior counselor Kellyanne Conway analyzes new polling ahead of the midterms and discusses voter concerns over the cost of living, inflation, and key Senate races, on 'The Story.'
Sunshine Health and Farm Share partner to fight food insecurity in South Tallahassee
Sunshine Health and Farm Share host a monthly food pantry in South Tallahassee, offering free food and health services to the community.
Ebola outbreak in Congo is still serious, African health body says
DAKAR, Sept 17 (Reuters) - The ongoing Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo is still serious, with data indicating gaps in infection prevention and control, Africa's top public health agency
Lodi Grape Festival returns to San Joaquin County with four-day event
The Lodi Grape Festival returns this week with live music, carnival rides and several ways to save on admission.
Mike Rogers gets big boost from business community with new slate of endorsements
Michigan’s business leaders are going all in on support for the U.S. Senate bid of Republican nominee Mike Rogers. On Thursday, both the Detroit Regional Chamber and the National Federation of Indepen...
'Trust me on AI,' oligarch's wedding gift, Jolly: Florida politics
President Donald Trump says nothing to see here in a scary artificial intelligence break out. Check out the latest episode of Inside Florida Politics.
Terry Francona Explains Elly De La Cruz's Late-Season Surge
Cincinnati kept the Dodgers waiting on a division title Wednesday night, and its shortstop moved a step closer to a piece of franchise history in the process.
Davis 'should be wing-back'
Legendary former Ipswich midfielder John Wark has said Leif Davis "should be a wing-back" because of his attacking prowess, but warned against an England call-up at this stage. The 26-year-old defender has impressed so far this season and his one goal and assist has already equalled his tally from Ipswich's last Premier League campaign in 2024-25. On the other side of Gary O'Neil's defence, Darnell Furlong admitted after Tuesday's Carabao Cup exit at the hands of Arsenal that having limited game time so far this season has been difficult.
Bengals coaches critical of Ja'Marr Chase usage vs. Bucs
Bengals coaches get blunt about what went wrong with Ja'Marr Chase.
Alex Ovechkin on Russian political ad appearance: 'I support my country'
Alex Ovechkin was asked about his appearance in a political video in his native Russia. "They asked me to do that and I said yes," he said.
Two years after Israel's pager attacks in Lebanon, teenage survivor rebuilds his life
Two years after surviving Israel's detonation of booby-trapped pagers in Lebanon, 14-year-old Ali Abbas is determined to move forward despite severe physical scars.
Ponzi schemer's bid for leniency involved MO congressman, newspaper
A Ponzi schemer who took millions from victims paid a Missouri political firm to secure favorable media and a congressman's support before sentencing.
Knox County means business, says Mayor Betsy Henderson
Betsy Henderson explains why she vetoed a South Knoxville townhome development and her plans for future growth.
Tennessee's new Music Advisory Council will boost advocacy and tourism
Governor Bill Lee is among the state officials behind an initiative to support music industry professionals.
Chubb Announces Leadership Appointments to Digital Business Organization
/PRNewswire/ -- Following Sean Ringsted's appointment as Chief Scientist and Executive Vice President, Chubb Group, Chubb Limited (NYSE: CB) today announced...
West El Paso noodle restaurant receives low health inspection score
A West El Paso Asian restaurant got low inspection scores in visits conducted Sept. 7-11.
Three Reasons Bucks Could Exceed Expectations This Season
Everyone has written off Milwaukee after the Giannis trade, but the roster has more ways to win than the projections admit.
As Canadian tariffs bite, Republicans search for a winning message
Candidates in northern border states most affected try to strike a balance between appealing to Trump’s loyal base and reaching independent voters.
Patriots vs. Steelers series history heading into 37th overall meeting
The Patriots enter Sunday’s game with a 19-17 advantage overall.
With new building to debut, Mercy nursing college becomes university
Mercy College of Health Sciences will have a new name to display on its new 23,700-square-foot nursing school in downtown Des Moines.
Memphis People in Business for Sept. 17, 2026
A look at promotions, hirings, movers and newsmakers in the Memphis area business scene
El-Sayed, Andrews are right to run. We need doctors in politics.
Doctors, nurses and public health professionals are running for office at every level. We should welcome that – across the political spectrum.
El-Sayed, Andrews are right to run. We need doctors in politics.
Doctors, nurses and public health professionals are running for office at every level. We should welcome that – across the political spectrum.
Dennis rejects hearing on Foley's as neighbors demand action
Dennis Licensing Board decides against holding a public hearing when faced with neighborhood complaints of noise and nuisance at Backyard by Foley's.
Patrick’s Politics: Islamophobia destroys the true reality of 9/11
ohran Mamdani, the current mayor of New York City, just wanted to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the worst terrorist attack on American soil — the one that had killed nearly 3,000 people in th…
Banker explains how digital wallets are modernizing business payments
Lanie Sedlacek with UMB Bank looks at the ins and outs of how digital wallets are modernizing business payments.
New bill would compensate returned political hostages like Paul Whelan
A bill by Rep. Haley Stevens would provide compensation to wrongful detainees such as Michigan's Paul Whelan, who was held by Russia for over five years
Dave Chappelle to hit major cities for new tour. How to get tickets
The comedian plans to hit seven arenas across the U.S. this fall.
Orlando Health grant assists Early Learning Coalition Brevard
The Early Learning Coalition of Brevard County (ELCB) recently announced it has been awarded more than $250,000 from the Space Coast Health Foundation to expand evidence-based social-emotional learning supports for preschool children across Brevard County.
Topeka couple seeks help to save their snack van
A Topeka couple is turning to the community to save their mobile snack business after repeated van breakdowns.
100 Tennessee football simulations predict clipped wings for Kennesaw State
We're back with EA Sports College Football 27's prediction for Tennessee vs. Kennesaw State at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville on Saturday, Sept. 19.
Business News: Watches And Wonders 2027 To Feature More New Brands Including Berneron And Porsche Design
The top event on the watch calendar is up to 75 brands exhibiting in Geneva in April.
Who left 'Dancing With the Stars' last night? 2nd celebrity sent home.
The competition has already lost two celebrities after a two-night Season 35 premiere.
‘The secret is finally out’: Upstate teams weigh in on national sports recognition
The Upstate is getting national recognition for its minor league sports scene, with Greenville-Spartanburg named the No. 1 minor league market in the country by Sports Business Journal.
Dollywood’s billionaire owners plot future without Dolly Parton
Since it opened in 1986, Dollywood has been both monument to Dolly Parton and a bustling venue where visitors can wander through a replica of the two-room log cabin where
Regents OK first Augusta University undergrad degree in public health
Augusta University is launching its first undergraduate public health degree to prepare students for health careers.
The science behind Florida football’s physical transformation starts with Jake Sankal
Nutritionist Jake Sankal is the science behind some of Florida football's body transformations. Here's how it works.
Shimano updates its road pedal system for the first time in 23 years
But new SPD-SLR pedal/cleat system is incompatible with current SPD-SL
New survey shows how many insured Americans still owe money on medical bills
Nearly half of insured adults with unpaid bills or medical debt owed $2,000 or more to hospitals, doctors or labs, Commonwealth Fund survey finds.
Celebrating Sacramento's 916 Day and looking into its impact on local business
Music, politics, power – Why Macklemore's Ed Sheeran tour dispute is unprecedented
Macklemore's removal from Ed Sheeran's tour raises bigger questions about free speech, venue power and who controls the stage.
Historic Rutland County farmhouse celebrates reopening with new businesses, childcare and housing inside
A community restoration project has transformed the Pittsford Village Farmhouse, bringing new business, childcare, housing and community spaces to the historic town building
Johnson’s renter protection ordinance advances after major concessions
A stripped-down version of Mayor Brandon Johnson’s renter protection ordinance got a nod from a city panel today as opponents forge ahead with competing legislation.
TCI Entertainment Aligns with Globant to Advance its Patented Interactive Commerce Technology
/PRNewswire/ -- TCI Entertainment ("TCI"), a technology company developing a proprietary platform designed to connect commerce with gaming and interactive...
Watch The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Season 7 premiere with Sling
Winter is coming to Bravo, here's how to stream the Season 7 premiere of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake.
What Does the Science of Climate Change Really Look Like?
Editor’s Note: This is the second in a three-part series on how the Right should think about environmental and climate policy. Read Chris Barnard on Reclaiming Environmental Policy from the Left. More than a decade ago, the world’s governments negotiated and signed the Paris Climate Agreement, committing to hold global warming well below 2 degrees Celsius. In the following years, climate had immense cultural power. Greta Thunberg emerged. Fortune 500 companies established net-zero plans. The U.S. got the Inflation Reduction Act. Then the pendulum swung back. President Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office, speaking of green energy as a “scam” and carbon footprints as a “hoax” and on all matters of international policy emphasizing bilateral engagement and power over globalism and cooperation. The technology companies that had been at the forefront of net-zero pledges and green leadership discovered the importance of all-of-the-above power to their visions for artificial intelligence and began quietly postponing or removing their targets. On the left side of the political spectrum, rising concerns about inflation and cost pushed climate lower down in the stated priorities of voters and stump speeches of politicians. The moment is ripe for a reset on the politics of climate change and for conservatives especially to chart a course that acknowledges and addresses the real challenges in plausible ways. So what should we think about climate change as we enter a post-peak climate era? If it is neither an apocalypse nor a hoax, what will hold up as a durable view of climate change? And how does it project onto the concerns and priorities of the right-of-center’s emerging coalition? New to Commonplace_? Subscribe below to get the magazine in your inbox._ Subscribe A Solid Foundation As the politics and economics of climate careened over the past ten years, the physics carried on regardless. In 2015, the year the Paris Climate Agreement was adopted, the world emitted 41.2 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide. By 2025, emissions had risen only 2.4%, to 42.2 gigatonnes, because falling emissions from land use offset increasing emissions from fossil fuels. But slow growth in annual emissions is not rapid decline, let alone net-zero, so carbon dioxide kept accumulating in the atmosphere, going from 399 to 426 parts per million. Global temperature kept rising too, from about 1.1 degrees Celsius above the 1850–1900 average in 2015, to 1.4 degrees above it in 2025. None of this should surprise anyone. Even most prominent skeptics, like the authors of the 2025 report commissioned by the Trump administration’s Department of Energy, accept the basic physics. Carbon dioxide added to the atmosphere at industrial volumes accumulates and traps heat that would otherwise escape to space. That heat warms the upper ocean and increases temperatures at the surface. Increased ocean heat and melting of land ice cause sea levels to rise. Changes in the climate become noticeable to us as subtle shifts in temperature and precipitation, seasons arriving early or late, changes in the surrounding ecosystem, and weather extremes. The much more meaningful debate is not about whether these things are happening, but about what it all means for human societies. (While it is a proxy measure of overall risk, no one experiences global surface temperature.) This debate invokes at least three interesting questions: how much today’s warming is showing up in regional climate trends, how much more warming we should anticipate, and how extreme weather events can be understood in the context of climate change. Recent scientific advances give us new insights into each of these, but there is still much to learn. This is the context in which the next generation of conservative leaders will be the first to deal with significant climate change as a fact, not a forecast. It will be with them for their entire careers. Our evolving scientific picture of climate change will come from weather and climate records stretching further into the past, new kinds of observations in the present, better modeling tools for the future, and simply more time to observe the emergence of climate signals and their tangible effects on ecosystems and communities in the United States and around the world. The policy landscape will be shaped by not only the impacts of changes in the climate, but also by the ways in which societies respond and by the emergence of new technologies for both altering the trajectory of emissions and adapting to new climate realities. Global climate records now show the fingerprints of warming in different phenomena around much of the world. The IPCC, in its most recent assessment report, documents warming trends over all land regions, even as natural variability adds substantial variance to local trends. And the highest temperature extremes have become more intense and frequent, almost everywhere, since the 1950s. Scientists are highly confident that these changes are attributable to human influence. But confidence in detecting trends and attributing them to human influence degrades across heavy precipitation events; drought trends are heterogeneous and not attributable to human activity with great confidence. For hurricanes, tornadoes, and other severe storms there is even less confidence in trends or their relationship to climate change. In general, a fair summary of the evidence is that for well-observed phenomena, like surface temperature or heavy rainfall, with a clear relationship to warming, our multidecadal observations are consistent with human influence overcoming natural variability over long time periods and extremes increasing. For regions that are sampled more sparsely, or phenomena with a higher noise-to-signal ratio, we will need to observe them longer to understand the magnitude of the climate signal or improve dynamical understanding using models and observations together. But for Climate For those who can’t wait, we also have new techniques that attempt to understand the role climate change has in influencing particular extreme events. When the climate is changing and disaster strikes, it is natural to ask whether that disaster was somehow “caused” by climate change. For scientists and policymakers acting in good faith, answering that question helps develop a more accurate picture of the problem, how it may be getting worse, and what preparations we should be making to respond to it. It may, at some point, give some weight to how liability is assigned by courts or adaptation funding is distributed by society. But how we ask this question is extremely important. It is easy to get the analysis wrong by discounting the role that meteorology plays. As meteorologist Theodore Shepherd explained in a clear 2016 review of climate attribution methods, “if a weather or climate event is truly extreme in the present climate, then perforce it requires unusual meteorological conditions, which means that climate change is at most a contributing factor.” Share Scientists have two ways to probe climate as a contributing factor, both of which have entered media coverage of extreme weather events. One asks a probabilistic question: How much more likely is a particular event (e.g., a temperature record over a particular area) amid global warming? The answer involves using historical records and computer simulations to estimate the likelihood of such an event in both a changed and a preindustrial climate. The findings are less about the specific event, and more about events of that nature. The other question is: How has the changed climate affected the specific event in question? Here, scientists try to understand what a similar event would have looked like in the preindustrial climate. This is sometimes called the storyline approach, where the story is the specific meteorological details of the event. These methods offer ways to test the intuition of scientists about real weather extremes. In late June and early July of 2021, a persistent high-pressure ridge, or heat dome, set up over the Pacific Northwest and an extraordinary heat wave affected the area from Oregon to British Columbia. For six days, it shattered temperature records across the region and hundreds died from heat-related causes, in an area where such high, and persistently high, temperatures were well outside of experience and many live without air conditioning. Scientists have studied its connection to climate change using multiple approaches. This specific event was created by a rare combination of meteorological factors, a strong high-pressure ridge created the conditions for extreme heat, which occurred on top of higher average temperatures in the region from global warming. Probabilistic analyses showed that climate change increased the likelihood of such an event by at least 8-fold to more than 100-fold. One standout example found that such an event had effectively zero probability of occurring in the preindustrial climate. The enormous range in these assessments reflects how hard it is to estimate probabilities of events at the tail of the historical record. Estimates of the effect on the temperature of the event are more clustered. A recent review paper documents how multiple methodologies have found a positive influence, roughly 1-2 degrees Celsius of an anomaly that exceeded 15 degrees, of climate change on the temperature magnitude of the event. Multiple studies have investigated and found some positive influence of climate change in other extreme events. Attribution studies found climate likely increased the heavy rainfall that accompanied Hurricane Helene in North Carolina and surrounding regions in 2024. The extensive fires that struck Los Angeles in 2025 illustrate how the causal chain can become messy, though. Studies do detect a positive influence of climate on the event’s likelihood, but while climate change likely contributed to underlying aridity, it would not have played a role in the heavy winds or land practices that preceded disaster. These event attribution studies will become more common for extreme, or damaging, weather events. They can be produced quickly, and often are reported before peer review. As the Pacific Northwest heatwave example shows, when multiple methods converge on a positive attribution, the finding should probably carry some weight even if you have to be careful about accepting the results from a single study. I expect that as climate change proceeds and the climate thus departs further from a preindustrial counterfactual, the influence will become more detectable across a variety of extreme events and more easily identified. This will be used to cast blame, but can also be used to inform how communities and society adapt to ongoing change. We May Still Be Surprised One positive development, insofar as less climate change is better, has been that our central estimates for future climate change should probably be revised downward. Mostly, that is because the high-end warmings that scientists regularly analyzed about ten to 20 years ago, driven by high emissions throughout the twenty-first century, now appear to be somewhere between unlikely and impossible. At one time, the upper end of mainstream climate projections extended well into 4 to 6 degrees Celsius of warming by the end of this century, which, models suggest, would have wrought enormous real-world damage. Current energy and policy trends now point toward 2.5 or 3 degrees. Damages and risks are commonly modeled as increasing steeply with more warming, so this is already a better-than-previously-expected outcome for the climate (which is independent of the physical response to emissions). But we should maintain a wide range for plausible outcomes and prepare for the possibility of being surprised. Emissions trajectories are subject to deep uncertainty, the physical climate response is still developing, and whatever change occurs in the climate will then be mediated through unpredictable economic, social, and political institutions. Over the past decade, the pace of warming surprised some keen observers and appeared to accelerate, though not yet outside the range of expectation provided by climate models. The reasons for that apparent acceleration are being actively studied (as was the apparent pause in warming from 1998 to 2012), but no single driver has emerged. Some blame it on the El Niño, variability which would have no bearing on climate. Some think it is a result of factories in East Asia and global shipping fleets cutting aerosol emissions, which in the strongest version of the argument would indicate higher climate sensitivity to carbon-dioxide emissions. Others are more measured, not yet ready to draw solid conclusions as to whether climate projections require revision. We will have to see. Long-Term Thinking Climate change asks us to think over long time scales. But the pace of human-driven warming is compressing a large global change into a century. Changing weather patterns and extreme events are already causing adjustment costs and damages and will do more. Adaptation will help, but it is not free. For some communities, these costs will erode livelihoods and well-being, and may force migration. Are we prepared for large-scale managed retreats in the United States? Thankfully, American wealth, geographical diversity, and moderate climates may leave us better prepared than many around the world. But wealthy countries can still suffer serious disruption from narrowly concentrated costs, even if they appear entirely manageable in aggregate. Readers of Commonplace are familiar with the challenges of rapidly adapting to economic forces. The displacement that came from the China Shock is barely perceptible in aggregate GDP and employment data, but it affected millions of people and those people were far less mobile than economic models tended to assume. Deindustrialization rippled through the nation with enormous effects for not only our economic vitality, but also our national security. The forces surrounding climate change may not be so different; the world gets richer and must accept some diffuse costs. Those may be modest overall, but cause all manner of unpredictable effects with which policymakers must cope. In the case of the China Shock, our faith in a growing pie served us poorly. We’ll need to do better on climate. Leave a comment
Health First announces layoffs and ends some local programs
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How to turn off the new 'always listening' feature on Apple Watches
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Florida Climate Week returns with hands-on marine science
Florida Climate Week returns Oct. 5 to 11 with events like a research vessel tour to promote sustainable solutions.
Ty Johnson listed as questionable
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Buffalo Bills Week 2 injury report
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Federal judge nominee in KY keeps politics at arm's length in hearing
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Deshaun Watson places blame after Browns disastrous start
Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson deflected blame onto the media following a blowout loss to Jacksonville.
Greenville rehab hospital doubles capacity after $40M expansion
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Virginia casinos’ August take is $97.6M
August gaming revenues at Virginia’s three permanent casinos and temporary casinos in Petersburg and Norfolk totaled $97.55 million.
Character matters most in politics
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NFL Screws Detroit Lions TWICE Following Outstanding Week 1 Performances
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Former Tar Heels Star Caleb Wilson Lands Exciting NBA Update
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Giants’ Devers Named as Potential Yankees Trade Target
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But lessons from these contests will play a major role in the critical midterm elections
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