3 Climate Change Stocks for 2020

While an ever-warming world searches for solutions to wilder weather, we've found three stocks likely to make the best of a bad situation. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

View this email in your browser While an ever-warming world searches for solutions to wilder weather, we've found three stocks likely to make the best of a bad situation. Plus, the biggest problem facing the cannabis industry, and what to do when Uncle Sam mistakenly thinks you've kicked the bucket. — Nathan Alderman, Stock Up Editor 3 Climate Change Stocks to Consider in 2020 The science is in: The world's getting way too warm, way too fast, and it's all but certain that we humans are to blame. Things are already getting bad — in Australia, six months of wildfires have scorched a chunk of land roughly the size of Oklahoma, killing an estimated 1 billion animals — and they'll either get somewhat worse (if we act quickly and decisively) or a whole lot worse (if we keep doing next to nothing). The three companies we've found: A water utility as fresh water becomes scarcer A pool provider as summers get hotter A generator maker as fires and disasters cause more power outages ... can't fix these problems. But they're well-positioned to benefit, at least in the near term, from our changing climate. For more on these three companies — and the very real, very urgent situation that could drive their shares higher — read the rest. Already subscribed to a premium service? Click here to view your subscriptions. Not a member yet? Click here to sign up! Watch: Forget Penny Stocks – Here's the Best Way to Invest $20 These seemingly "cheap" stocks can destroy a portfolio and burn hard-earned cash. Investors looking for inexpensive ways to start investing have other, much better options. 1 Major Problem for the Cannabis Industry The Internet has empowered people to do their own research on medical issues. Unfortunately, a lot of the information those people find is flat-out wrong. And for companies hoping to capitalize on the marijuana derivative cannabidiol, or CBD, that misinformation could pose a serious risk. Marijuana has legitimate medical uses, and some CBD-based products have shown clinical evidence and/or won FDA approval for treating illnesses, including some rare but severe forms of epilepsy found in children. But different strains of cannabis affect different people in different ways. And despite reams of Internet hype, there's no evidence that CBD has any effect on the host of other maladies it supposedly combats, including and especially cancer. At best, early studies suggest one of the flavonoids in cannabis might be able to treat pancreatic cancer in mice — a long, long, loooooong way from an actual wonder drug for humans. If sky-high claims online eventually flip CBD's image from magical cure-all to total snake oil, the few companies that really are making useful drugs from CBD could suffer. For more on what investors should watch for in the budding cannabis-derived pharmaceutical space, read the rest. Not sure what to ask your smart speaker? Keep up with what's happening in the market by adding our daily flash briefing to your home assistant. Just look for The Motley Fool on your Amazon Alexa or Google Home app, click subscribe, and then you're good to go. What to Do If the Social Security Administration Mistakenly Declares You Dead When we saw this story pop up on Fool.com, we couldn't not include it here. Yes, it actually happens: Sometimes the federal government thinks you've kicked the bucket, even as you remain hale and hearty. It happens to an estimated 6,000 people a year! All it takes is a fat-finger data-entry error while some hapless clerk enters a death certificate into the system, and oops! You're officially pining for the fjords. Now, if you've recently robbed a bank or angered a mob boss or embezzled large sums of money, that might strike you as a great stroke of luck. But for the rest of us non-criminal types, being declared dead can be, you know, something of an inconvenience — especially when you're denied a loan or a credit card because the system thinks you ought to be six feet under. Fortunately, in these cases resurrection proves considerably easier than it does in all other forms of death. To find out how you can be recalled to life if you're suffering from death by bureaucracy, read the rest. FEATURED PODCAST The Day the Market Crashed In this special episode, Chris Hill joins us to discuss the day the market tanked. Were you ready? Subscribe on iTunes Easily track your favorite stocks with our new browser extension for Google Chrome. Add it to Chrome by going here, then open a new tab and use the "Manage Tickers" button to customize the page with your favorite stocks. Quick Reads Lush life: Hard seltzer seems to be stealing sales from wine. Uh ... cheers, we guess? Plenty of room in the streaming space: Evidence suggests that upstarts like Disney+ are joining, not displacing, older services like Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) on consumers' watchlists. Cover that cough and wash your hands: News of an ominous new respiratory virus in China has boosted the shares of a vaccine maker with a record of success against previous such plagues. Social Media Post of the Week See all our Instagram posts! Join the 1,300,000+ people who follow us! We work fervently, feverishly, and Foolishly to make sure all the facts and figures we publish in our emails are 100% accurate and up to date. Returns as of January 22, 2020. Have a question or topic you'd like to see covered in a future edition of Stock Up? Email us at stockup@fool.com. Our mailing address is: The Motley Fool | 2000 Duke St. | Alexandria, VA 22314 Want to change how you receive these emails? 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