http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2009/02/09/a-melting-antarctica-could-bring-an-underwater-smithsonian/ Ideas, innovations and discoveries from the world of science Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:02:55 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2009/02/09/a-melting-antarctica-could-bring-an-underwater-smithsonian/comment-page-1/#comment-1633 Climate Change: Why We Worry | Surprising Science Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:26:01 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/?p=662#comment-1633 [...] Even if we lower our carbon emissions and try to stem the tide of climate change, it’s going to be bad. Of course, it will be your children and grandchildren that have to deal with the worst of it (and the developing world, even worse than that), so maybe you’ll decide that all of this won’t harm you and, thus, it’s not your problem. Personally, I’d rather argue now about the best way to fix this problem than leave it to my descendants to figure out how to deal with the climate refugees, civil strife and underwater cities. [...] [...] Even if we lower our carbon emissions and try to stem the tide of climate change, it’s going to be bad. Of course, it will be your children and grandchildren that have to deal with the worst of it (and the developing world, even worse than that), so maybe you’ll decide that all of this won’t harm you and, thus, it’s not your problem. Personally, I’d rather argue now about the best way to fix this problem than leave it to my descendants to figure out how to deal with the climate refugees, civil strife and underwater cities. [...]

]]> http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2009/02/09/a-melting-antarctica-could-bring-an-underwater-smithsonian/comment-page-1/#comment-281 The Disappearing Arctic Coastline | Surprising Science Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:49:19 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/?p=662#comment-281 [...] to care about sites like these when the waves start lapping at the edges of coastal cities like New York and Washington? Posted By: Sarah Zielinski — Climate Change, From the Magazine | Link | Share/Save [...] [...] to care about sites like these when the waves start lapping at the edges of coastal cities like New York and Washington? Posted By: Sarah Zielinski — Climate Change, From the Magazine | Link | Share/Save [...]

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