Thursday, November 1, 2012

Three Ways to Adapt to Climate Change: Nearsighted, Farsighted and Misguided

Huffington Post: We who inhabit this planet's thin fickle atmosphere face two kinds of climate risks: today's and tomorrow's. For millennia, we've grappled with climate variability -- floods, droughts, cyclones, heat waves. Dealing with these risks is an unfinished agenda. Richer countries are more able to cope, but when disasters hit poor countries, people perish and economies buckle. Now these familiar risks are mutating in the face of human-caused climate change. Variability is becoming more intense. The five...

URL: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kenneth-m-chomitz/climate-change_b_2057276.html

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