America is about to sneeze, so we had best rug up

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t was once said that “if America sneezes, the world catches a cold”, well the U.S. is shivering and so we had best rug up.

The realities of climate change and the impact it brings are now beginning to be understood in the U.S. and looks as if a sneeze if coming.

ClimateProgress reports that, “A coalition of big insurance companies, consumer groups, and environmental advocates are urging the United States to overhaul its disaster policies in the face of increasingly extreme weather due to human-caused climate change.”

The story - “Big Insurance Companies Are Warning The U.S. To Prepare For Climate Change” – says the U.S. needs to increase how much it spends on pre-disaster mitigation efforts and infrastructure protection.