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San Diego prepares for global warming

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on June 25, 2007 at 9:49 pm

Here is an article from the San Diego Union Tribune which discusses what San Diego and other coastal communities in the U.S. are doing to prepare for the potential changes global warming will bring:

Global warming is expected to increase the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events such as floods, droughts and hurricanes. Rising temperatures likely will damage fisheries, increase heat-related deaths, hasten the spread of infectious diseases and alter where crops can grow. Government agencies, politicians and activists are slowly ramping up their efforts to adapt to these projected changes. No national program exists to coordinate such a monumental mission, so the work largely has fallen to state and local governments.

Like most of the country, the San Diego region has yet to create a comprehensive plan for coping with global warming. “We are just seeing so many areas at the local level that we probably would need to do some sort of serious rethinking about,” said Linda Giannelli Pratt, a climate change expert for the city of San Diego. “It’s still a little fuzzy.”

To read the rest of this article from the San Diego Union Tribune, click here.

June 25, 2007 · Filed Under San Diego

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