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| Contributor | ArmyDem |
| Last Edited | ArmyDem Mar 29, 2009 09:33am |
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| News Date | Sunday, March 29, 2009 03:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | It’s interesting to me that the same people who think that a climate change event occurring on the same day as it snows somewhere ought to dominate the press coverage, never seem to think that it might be worth investigating the climate change angle to, say, catastrophic flooding on the Red River.
Of course one can’t responsibly say “this exact disaster wouldn’t have occurred had the United States began seriously pursuing emissions reductions ten years ago.” But one certainly can say that these kinds of events—floods, droughts, tornadoes, hurricanes—illustrate the dangers of climate change. Humanity has made a great deal of fixed investment in the places where we live, work, and play. These are based on certain assumptions. Fargo is where it is in part because of beliefs about how high the river is likely to rise. Mess with the climate, and you mess with those assumptions. This is the eighth “ten year flood” of Fargo in the last 20 years, and letting average temperatures continue to rise over the next few decades will cause more-and-more damage to our way of live. |
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