No one wants their last words to be "Oh my God! The old gypsy woman was right..."
Climate change, interacting with changes in land use and demographics, will affect important human dimensions in the United States, especially those related to human health, settlements and welfare. The challenges presented by population growth, an aging population, migration patterns, and urban and coastal development will be compounded by changes in temperature, precipitation, and extreme climate-related events. Climate change will affect where people choose to live, work, and play. Among likely climate changes are changes in the intensity and frequency of precipitation, more frequent heat waves, less frequent cold waves, more persistent and extreme drought conditions and associated water shortages, changes in minimum and maximum temperatures, potential increases in the intensity and frequency of extreme tropical storms, measurable sea-level rise and increases in the occurrence of coastal and riverine flooding. In response to these anticipated changes, the United States may develop and deploy strategies for mitigating greenhouse gases and for adapting to unavoidable individual and collective impacts of climate change
Just in case the Bush administration makes the EPA remove this report (4MB .pdf) from the web I grabbed a copy which you can download from here (to save my bandwidth please try the official site first)
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Doug, as I get older, so my eyesight deteriorates.
So could you increase the line spacing in your CSS when in yellow on black mode please?
I use 140% on my blog’s CSS FWIW.
Ole Phat Stu 
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9:22 pm 7/19/2008
I changed it to 160% Stu - hope that helps
Doug Alder 
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9:45 pm 7/19/2008
