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California must adapt to changing climate
Even if the world is successful in cutting carbon emissions in the future, California needs to start preparing for rising sea levels, hotter weather and other effects of climate change, a new state report recommends.
It encourages local communities to rethink future development in low-lying coastal areas, reinforce levees that protect flood-prone areas and conserve already strapped water supplies.
"We still have to adapt, no matter what we do, because of the nature of the greenhouse
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/08/03/national/a030204D68.DTL#ixzz0N8it0RUj
It encourages local communities to rethink future development in low-lying coastal areas, reinforce levees that protect flood-prone areas and conserve already strapped water supplies.
"We still have to adapt, no matter what we do, because of the nature of the greenhouse
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/08/03/national/a030204D68.DTL#ixzz0N8it0RUj
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