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EPA warns Bush: Adaptation to climate change may not be possible.
The EPA has issued its "Synthesis and Assessment Product 4.6; Analyses of Effects of Global Climate Change on Welfare and Human Systems"
which anticipates a wide range of negative impacts on human health over the coming decades, including "increased mortality"
This excerpt, which I found on page 94, states the following:
"there is no guarantee that future changes in climate will not present a threshold that poses technological or physical limits to which adaptation is not possible."
The Bush administration has rejected proposals to cap C02 or impose carbon taxes to limit global warming. The EPA has issued its "Synthesis and Assessment Product 4.6; Analyses of Effects of Global Climate Change on Welfare and Human S... more -
American Midwest: 120°F by end of century
NPR (click on link to listen to 3:38 min story or read article)
"Extreme temperatures around the world are likely to rise dramatically as a result of global warming, a new study finds. Some heavily populated parts of the world — including the American Midwest — could face heat waves in which the temperature soars above 120 degrees by the end of this century."
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that's if all goes well. NPR (click on link to listen to 3:38 min story or read article) ... more -
2007: Second Hottest Year on Record :(
With 2005 as the current leader...
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