EENews: A view of the downtown Miami coastline. The city is one of a growing number of coastal urban areas hiring chief resilience officers to help plan for the impacts of climate change. Photo courtesy of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
MIAMI -- On the job just six months as the chief resilience officer in Florida's largest county, Jim Murley has gotten pretty good at his climate change 101 speech. It's out of necessity.
As the Earth's temperature rises, the oceans warm, he told...