Time to Begin 'Adapting' to Climate Change? ; the World Bank Is Hiring Experts in 'Adaptation' to a Warming World. Coastal Planners Are Starting to Take It into Account

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At the World Bank in Washington, officials have posted some new "help wanted" signs. The bank is looking for a few good specialists (two, to be precise) to focus on adapting to global warming.It's a small beginning, perhaps. Still, the ads represent one signal that adaptation is emerging from the political doghouse to take its place among the front-rank options for dealing with climate change.At least in the developed world, the idea that people should start figuring out how to deal with the projected effects of warming - changing temperature and rainfall, shifts in growing seasons, more bouts of severe weather, and rising sea levels - has been overshadowed by calls to reduce …