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[barondave]

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?

Comments

[pgdudda.livejournal.com]

My opinion? It's already too late to prevent change due to global warming. The question isn't "How do we stop it?", but rather, "How do we minimize the effects so that they are merely bad instead of catastrophic?"

[barondave.livejournal.com]

It's already going to be catastrophic. The question is, "Will humans continue to be the dominant life form on the planet."

[pgdudda.livejournal.com]

Bad = having time to move people out of harm's way
Catastrophic = letting them just sit there till they become refugees