Newsweek: Climate report: Droughts, starvation, disease

if this thing isn't turned!

I live approx. 3 miles from the gulf.

does this mean I will have waterfront property?!

But, your elevation isn't much higher than mine. And I've got the Anclote River across the street. My neighborhood is surrounded on 3 sides by water.

for this -(darn it)- as most of the pollution causing the climate change is coming from China.

hundred years?????

We are largely responsible for the current situation. In time, China will perhaps equal our responsibility, but they'd be hard pressed to ever exceed it.

Sheila Watt-Cloutie was on. She is an Inuit global warming activist who was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. She was saying that global warming is already affecting her tribe. She says it is already killing people. The Arctic ice is not freezing, so people mis-read it. Instead of ice being a roadway for hunting, it becomes a death trap - too soft. She also said that small rivers they normally wade across are very deep with stronger currents, which have whisked people away. Those were the two things that stuck in my head. I pictured the scene there. It was frightening and very real.

I work for the Suffolk County legislature in NY and the county is considering a "vector control" plan for mosquito control. Since Long Island's south shore has lots of wetlands and salt water marshes, mosquitoes are a big "quality of life" issue.

There is a lot of controversy right now regarding the use of larvacides such are permethion in the marshes as opposed to using adulticides like Methaprene, known as Scourge and Anvil.

One of the issues is differentiation of DISEASE carrying skeeters, what with West Nile et al, and "Nuisance" mosquitoes. I pointed out that we are already seeing pests that are not native to the Northeast in our area, such as the Long Star Tick and the West Nile Mosquito and that we can only expect to see more and that drawing that distinction is going to get mighty hard. They agreed with me but are still not sure what plan to use to minimize disease and nuisance while limiting damaging shellfish, which are vulnerable to the endocrine disputors in the larvacides.

The things you learn in this job!!!!!

Hey, I'm just sayin... :shrug:

There was a time when America could have made a positive global impact.

With the proper leadership we could begin (or would already have begun) establishing new energy standards.

At this point, though, I doubt we have the credibility to influence anyone even if we could set the example. Of course, with fuckface in office we're screwed either way.