Midwest’s climate future: Missouri becomes like Arizona, Chicago becomes like Texas

Washington Post: The bipartisan trio of climate risk prognosticators for the business community -- Michael Bloomberg, former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, and billionaire investor Tom Steyer -- are back. And this time, their Risky Business Project has produced a report focusing in particular on how a world of rising temperatures could threaten the Midwestern region of the U.S.: the Heartland. Perhaps the most striking finding? A higher prevalence of extremely hot temperatures could severely impact corn and......

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