AT&T, hit by higher natural disaster costs, unveils 30-year climate change model

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The announcement follows several natural disasters that cost the company $847 million since 2016, including $626 million in 2017 alone.

AT&T is paying the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory to predict climate-related events that could damage the company's infrastructure over the next 30 years.

The tool will track flooding, hurricane and wind storms in North and South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, according to Charlene Lake, AT&T's chief sustainability officer and senior vice president for public affairs. The company plans to extend climate projections across the country, and track wildfires and droughts as well.

"Our customers and community depends on our service during natural disaster time and the resilience of our business and network," she said, adding that AT&T will share its climate data with municipalities and universities to use for analysis. Scott Mair, AT&T's president of operations, said that the model will guide decisions on whether to elevate cell sites in areas with expected flooding, or to build protections around cell towers in areas with expected higher winds.

 

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Now don’t get any ideas Trump !they aren’t smarter than you are they big boy!

sure, that will help!

Yes the Majority Of Americans can take pride in getting it right about Climate Change. Now even Big corporations are showing concerns as their repair costs skyrocket. Republicans have raped our Environmental Laws. 2020 we need to vote Democrats in to refocus our battle against.

A T and T ask for plane huge mega super soakers to fight wild forest fires. You pay that bill.

Looks like it's time to sell the rest of my ATT stock...

Wait this doesn't look much like a Chinese hoax

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