Global warming: Want to see Northwest impacts? Just look around

Living in a corner of America powered, irrigated and inspired by water, we ought to treat Tuesday's report released by the White House, Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States, as a wake-up call and cold shower.

"We are the alpha and the omega of global warming," said Rep. Jay Inslee, D-Wash., who helped write a flawed -- but needed -- bill to change national energy policy. It's pending in the House.

Want to know how climate change is changing America? Read the report. Want its bottom line: "Global warming is unequivocal and primarily human-induced." Changes "are expected to increase."

Want to see impacts on the Northwest? Just look around, something that global-warming skeptics resolutely refuse to do.
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A few hours earlier, down in a park at Dubois, oil industry workers told us that global warming was a "hoax." But the hoax is killing the forests above them and melting glaciers that sustain flow of the Wind River.

South Korean PM says threats from climate change, economic crisis not mutually exclusive - Los Angeles Times

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean Prime Minister Han Seung-soo said Friday that Asia is at grave risk from climate change and warned that responding to the environmental threat cannot be separated from fighting the global economic crisis.
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Han explained South Korea's policy of creating a low carbon economy and creating jobs through a so-called green growth plan that calls for spending 50 trillion won ($39.3 billion) over the next four years.

Global Warming Will Improve Global Agriculture - Pravda.Ru

At many times in the past, the earth's climate has been warmer than it is today. During the period known as the Holocene Climate Optimum, global temperatures were about two degrees Celsius, or about four degrees Fahrenheit, higher than they are today. During the Holocene Climate Optimum, warmer temperatures and an associated increase in rainfall facilitated the development of agriculture, village communities, and eventually cities by humankind in many parts of the world.