Climate Central: Councilmembers of an island town in Georgia met in a police station near sandy beaches last week to mull a plan for coping with worsening floods. The meeting followed unprecedented king tide floods in the fall that inundated the island and nearby Savannah, and shut down the highway that connects them.
"We've had more frequent flooding in areas that haven't flooded before,' said Jason Buelterman, mayor of the beach town on the eastern shore of Tybee Island, where the population of a few thousand...