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Climate Events---Help Dems or Not?
With an active hurricane season underway, we also hear that the Northwest Passage is offically open; the Arctic ice pack is now an island:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/08/31/eaarctic131.xml
While recent seasons have been mild in Chicago, wetter but with more moderate temps, other areas are seeing major changes.
A friend that used to live on the California coast explains that summer fog now blankets the beaches at Newport for about half the season.
Another friend in New Mexico sees steady and torrential rain, an extended monsoon unlike the typical.
I was in central Mexico, and their rain season should start in late July, but it was running strong in June.
The beach town of Bethany, Delaware (Paul O'Neill's vacation spot) had the Army engineers build a storm-protection berm so high it would protect from a 12-ft surge, or something like that. I've been going there for decades and this is the first time they acted worried---no doubt insurance is the driver.
The first definable result of climate change is insuarnce rates, it seems. But who is getting hurt? Will Jindal come out looking good, or will people remember the previous time? Gas prices seem ready to jump, and tropical storm Hanna is building.
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