Recently in Climate change Category

White House released today a new report on how climate change is going to affect the US. It's well worth reading. For instance, sometime this century, Illinois will have the climate of Texas. Let me tell you what you're in for, Illinois: it's 100 degrees outside right now in Dallas, and it is horrible. And it's only mid-June.

As for us in north Texas, by century's end, we'll likely be suffering through 110-degree days in mid-June, says the government. And there will be a lot less water to go around. Beautiful.

On the upside, the family land my kids will inherit in south Louisiana will be pretty much beachfront property. On the downside, it will be a lot closer to the much-stronger hurricanes expected to afflict us then.

One of the academics who spoke to us in Cambridge said that when he talks to climate scientists, they uniformly say the projections they're working with are worse than what they say publicly. Why don't they say publicly what they say privately? Because they don't want to panic people, he explained, and besides, there's nothing much that can be done to stop it now. All we can do is adapt.