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Feeling the effects of global warming?
by Joseph Romm

As the 2006 hurricane season begins, three questions hang over Florida.

• Were the 2004 and 2005 hurricane seasons just part of a natural cycle, or have we entered a new period of global-warming-enhanced hurricane seasons?

• As global warming leads to ever-rising sea levels, how will that affect low-lying South Florida?

• What can the state do to help avert the worst climate change impacts?