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On the recordJune 22, 2009
I have used for myself as a way of understanding this the metaphor or analogy, I guess, of a levee that we are worried about breaching.
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John Sarbanes
Democratic · Maryland

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Sarbanes uses a levee metaphor to explain concerns about climate change irreversibility.

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