Raving insanity in Maryland

From this page, entitled "O'Malley: Human survival at risk from warming":

Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley is making the case that limits on global warming pollution could cost businesses in the short term. But in the long term, O'Malley argues that the cost of inaction is much greater -- the flooding of waterfront businesses and homes, and eventually, the extinction of humans.

“We need to move into a much more sustainable future or else we cease to exist as a species,” O’Malley, a Democrat, said while surrounded by environmental activists during a press conference at the State House yesterday. “People can talk about the increased cost of things. But what sort of increased costs will come from a four foot rise in sea level for businesses located at the Sparrows Point (steel mill) or in Annapolis or in downtown Baltimore?”
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O'Malley's assertions about widespread death coming in the long-term from climate change was backed up by Dr. Cindy Parker of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She told a senate committee yesterday that unchecked global warming would mean worsening air pollution, flooding and increases in diseases including asthma, she said.<

“As a public health physician, I believe that climate change poses the greatest risk to our health of anything this century,” Dr. Parker said. Action by Maryland and other states could prompt federal action, and if this convinces governments around the world to act, it "has the potential to save lots of lives, thousands and millions worldwide,” Dr. Parker said.