From the NY Times:
BBC News noted on Sunday, in its pre-coverage of the conference, that the rising temperatures will, of course, have an impact not just on poor countries, including opening up parts of North America and Russia to wheat production that are currently too cold — including Alaska and Siberia. Indeed, a map based on research by Cimmyt, a nonprofit network of global organizations working on food security and agricultural issues, shows the belly of North America’s wheat bounty shifting to Canada by 2050.
If it took things getting so bad that U.S. actions are about to touch off a regional war across the Middle East; if it took us getting our asses kicked in two wars for someone associated with the Bush people to admit that we have a problem in Iraq; if it takes this level of disaster to get an admission out of people that things aren't going as planned, what will it take for us to notice and act on Global Climate Change?
We have a senator running around angrily, arrogantly, and wrongly shouting that this is all a hoax. Hell, a couple of my college sophomore students think so, and say so.
How bad do things have to get? Will we notice when we can no longer feed ourselves, as a nation?
I am alarmed as I watch so many of my fellow Americans doubt science they have no grasp of, and which they can't be bothered to learn about.