Panel: US Faces Change As Climate Warms (IPCC)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6547934,00.html

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Chicago and Los Angeles will likely face increasing heat waves. Severe storm surges could hit New York and Boston. And cities that rely on melting snow for water may run into serious shortages.

These are some of the findings about North America in a report by hundreds of scientists that try to explain how global warming is changing life on Earth. The scientists with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a summary of their findings on global warming last Friday and outlined details of the report focusing on various regions on Tuesday.

According to the panel, global warming is already having an effect on daily life but when the Earth gets a few degrees hotter, the current inconvenience could give way to danger and even death. The North American impact will be felt from Florida and Texas to Alaska and Canada's Northwest Territories.

``Canada and the United States are, despite being strong economies with the financial power to cope, facing many of the same impacts that are projected for the rest of the world,'' Achim Steiner, executive director of the U.N. Environment Program which co-founded the panel, said in a statement.

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out of the southwest. This will no doubt happen from both within and outside the country. What are the consequences when states like Texas and New Mexico and others in the south run out of water? What do northern states that still have water need to do to prepare for this eventuality?

EVER going to run out of water - it's an unending, replenishing resource! (I know, that's a broad sweeping statement - I'm sure there are some who get it.)

Maybe they're thinking desalination of the oceans will take care of the problem - I don't know, maybe it will? :shrug:

bigger problem also, as will the cost of energy to aircondition their homes and businesses.