Every day there is new study - I'm talking a real sample of data collected over years- which enforces that the planet's climate is changing. Whether we caused it or not isn't the issue. Whether we are going to establish policies and preventative measures to ensure the safety of our cities, natural resources, water supplies, and air is what we need to discuss now.
It is perhaps more real now with the northeastern Unites States trying to collect itself after days of heavy rain caused devastating floods. Imagine that same storm but with a sea level almost a foot higher as its normal. That is what faces the east cost according to the article cited below.
How are we going to protect the industries that thrive and operate in this region? I can tell you that joking about slowing the rise of the oceans is not something a potential commander in chief should be taking about.
Mitt Romney and his republican colleagues still are sticking to their guns (no pun intended, it is just a saying); still saying that climate change is a scientific fabrication of the environmentally minded democrats. The climate is changing. Are humans to blame? I am unsure. Do we have an obligation to protect our infrastructure and the future of the planet from rising sea levels and gross pollution of our planet? Ask a New York resident. I think that after a week without power or heat and seeing their home being destroyed by flood waters, they'd say yes we need to make a solid stand to address environmental issues.
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/341723/description/East_Coast_faces_faster_sea_level_rise
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